Eugene V. Debs Quotes
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.
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The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.
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My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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It's a little unsettling, to put a mud caulk on and then have nothing, but it doesn't look like it took away any of his foot.
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
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My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.
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I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
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The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
