Herbert Spencer Quotes
And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
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No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
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I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
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The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
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I love house music. I love all music.
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It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
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It's funny that a lot of the fans of 'Angel' have come over and hung out with me on 'Leverage.' I was so fortunate to have been on that show. It created one of the best fan groups ever. I just have the best fans in the world.
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I've got an opportunity that not many people have - to be the leader of Team Sky as I enter the prime years of my career.
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The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
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In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.
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And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!
