Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Camille Paglia
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
Ram Dass
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
Karl Popper
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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
C. S. Lewis
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
Samuel Lover
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If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
Ann Coulter
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
Oscar Isaac
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
T. H. White
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
Nancy Sinatra
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There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
Bill Janklow
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A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
