Vincent McNabb Quotes
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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In as much as any invisible, unbelievable, unknowable fictional character is, yes.
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
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Your library is your paradise.
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There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
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We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.
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The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn’t been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
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I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.
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It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.
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I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.
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We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
