Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
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I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
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Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
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Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
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My only weapon is the question.
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
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My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.
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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
