William Graham Sumner Quotes
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I have no trouble sleeping.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.
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Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
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It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
