Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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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.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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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.
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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.
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
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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.
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Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
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Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
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I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
Colson Whitehead -
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
