Ernestine Rose Quotes
Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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The writer is all alone.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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We're kind of frustrated right now. We're willing to try anything to solve this.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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In football, specialists are only useful up to a point. That worries me. You can field a dilettante anywhere. That pleases me.
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.
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Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
