Michael Harrington Quotes
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Caecilius Statius
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
Nate Berkus
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
T. C. Boyle
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
L. Neil Smith
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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
Walt Whitman
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Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.
Vilfredo Pareto
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For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, 'Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex.' This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
Camille Paglia
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Lionel Trilling
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…satyromaniacal…
Anthony Burgess
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The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
Andy Partridge
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein
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I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles Dickens
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Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
Meghan Markle
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There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.
David Shuster
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Life is lived in common, but not in community.
Michael Harrington