Herbert Spencer Quotes
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I don't like possessions.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who does not fall a victim to their blandishments.
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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
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You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
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My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.
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A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
