B. Traven Quotes
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
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The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
