Ernestine Rose Quotes
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.
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If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
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We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
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You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
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figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
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No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
