Ernestine Rose Quotes
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.
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If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
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You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.
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It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.
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I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
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When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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A good deal is a state of mind.
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The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.
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If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
