Eugene V. Debs Quotes
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
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I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
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Let someone else get killed!
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
