Wendell Phillips Quotes
Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.
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It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
