E. J. W. Barber Quotes
The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
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The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
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As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
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A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.
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The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
