R. S. Thomas Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Philip Randolph
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
Gary Bauer
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
Manika
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
Ma Jian
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
Ian Mckellen
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
Iris Apfel
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I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.
Tanith Lee
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
Iain Banks
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
Tupac Shakur
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Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
Mickey Kaus
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.
Flann O'Brien
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You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.
Ally Carter
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The darkness
R. S. Thomas
