William Graham Sumner Quotes
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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'Baby,' I said. 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
