Joseph McCabe Quotes
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
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Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.
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You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.
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Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
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... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.
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I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Belief in oneself is required for healing.
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No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
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The absence of theistic belief.
