Herbert Spencer Quotes
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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I have selective hearing.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. To work with the hands or brain, according to our acquirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.
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For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
