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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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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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 want to help everyone.
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Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!
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They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
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The absence of theistic belief.
