Herbert Spencer Quotes
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.
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Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.
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All the women in my family were very creative.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
