Studs Terkel Quotes
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
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I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffered not; The living remained and suffered-the mother suffered, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffered, And the armies that remained suffered.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
