Josiah Warren Quotes
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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Until I don’t lose, until I am not defeated such allegations will continue. People who have been trying to defeat me for the past 12 years have been using all their strength. They couldn't give me even a scratch. This is their ego problem.
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I'll tell you this - No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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I will not campaign for any party.
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The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
