Herbert Spencer Quotes
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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'You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.'
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
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I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
