Herbert Spencer Quotes
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. laughter The lady's not for turning.
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In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
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I think there's always been progressive R&B music.
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Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
