Thomas More Quotes
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.
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In truth, how much time do any of us really have?
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In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
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A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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The new pastoral style, which John XXIII intended, has much to do with what he said during his opening speech, when he spoke about the medicine of mercy. Since that time, the theme of mercy has become fundamental not only for the council, but also for the entire pastoral praxis of the postconciliar church.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
