Northrop Frye Quotes
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1
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Blue Moon,You knew just what I was there for,You heard me saying a prayer for,Someone I really could care for.
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Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I love watches. I have a Hublot, a Breitling, and a Cartier. Different accessories that I match together just to be comfortable and casual.
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One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.
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I like bringing smiles to people's faces.
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Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.
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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
