Josiah Royce Quotes
Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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I am just an ordinary Catholic.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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'Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is failing God. Remember, God is speaking to you through them, saying: 'They are fatherless, so that you can be their father.' 'They are lonely, so that you can be their companion.' 'They are in want, so that you can be their benefactor.' '
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You are as like the forming of God as ever people were... you are at the edge of promises and prophecies.
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If you look at our country's history, change doesn't come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people.
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I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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You will not see, in my career, the kind of returns this industry had in 2005 and 2006 for a very simple reason - the banks were undercapitalized, and returns are a function of earnings and capital.
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
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I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.
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Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
