Eugene V. Debs Quotes
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
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Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
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The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.
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We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
