Herbert Spencer Quotes
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I don't know where he Marc Chagall gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.
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It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
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Lawyers don't run sales forces.
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It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
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I'm working on just finding a boyfriend right now.
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
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The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder - it gets a little bit ragged.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
