Norman Mailer Quotes
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
Quotes to Explore
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We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
Al Gore
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When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
David Rockefeller
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Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
Kenneth Frazier
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When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.
Max Heindel
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I'm not perfect.
Brett Favre
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By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
James Larkin
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There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.
Donald Miller
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
Jack Kevorkian
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When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.
Karen Allen
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The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
