Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.
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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
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He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.
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I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
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There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
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It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.
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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
