Eugene V. Debs Quotes
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.
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I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.
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I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
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We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.
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You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.
