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've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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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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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.
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In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
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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.
