William Graham Sumner Quotes
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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Some people will always be disappointed.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
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Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
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The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
