Herbert Spencer Quotes

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

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• Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

  

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• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

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• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

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• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

  Saint Bernard
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• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

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• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

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• I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

  

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• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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  • Doing
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• When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • You
  • Relationship
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• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
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• I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

  

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• My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Wish
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• The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Art

• I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
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• Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  

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• Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

  

  Aristotle
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• Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

  

  William Goldman
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• If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.

  

  Dree Hemingway
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• Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

  

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• In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.

  

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• An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Desire
  • Argument
  • Property