William Graham Sumner Quotes

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

William Graham Sumner

• Men
• Survival
• Interfere

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• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
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• My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

  

  Fortune Feimster
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• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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  • Live
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• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Freedom
  • Explore
  • Tradition

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Best

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
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• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
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• All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

  

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  • Nature
  • Equal
  • Alike

• What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

  

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  • Children

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
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• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Me
  • Know
  • Hand

• My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

  

  James Tobin
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• While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

  

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  • Heart
  • America

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  Ken Wilber
  • Night
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• The long program sets the men apart from the boys.

  

  Max Aaron
  • Men
  • Long

• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Survival
  • Interfere