Herbert Spencer Quotes

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

Herbert Spencer

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• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!

  

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  

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• She took those pills from the pill concocter, And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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• Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

  

  Aphra Behn
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• Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?

  

  Clarice Lispector
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• Went to the new Church both morning and afternoon, and read service in the afternoon. I got through it all with great success, till I came to read out the first verse of the hymn before the sermon, where the two words ‘strife strengthened,’ coming together, were too much for me, and I had to leave the verse unfinished.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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• We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
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• They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

  

  Janis Karpinski
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• I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

  

  Andrew Pyper
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• I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

  

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• Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

  

  Jessica Pare
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• I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

  

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• I never really necessarily liked being quiet.

  

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• I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

  

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• I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation.

  

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• It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

  

  Michael Shannon
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• I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.

  

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• The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

  

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• Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

  

  Herbert Spencer