Herbert Spencer Quotes
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
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A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
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Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.
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We have 35 different criteria when deciding on the location of a data centre. Tax is one of them.
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For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.
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Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
