Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
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There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
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It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.
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Truth is a golden thread, seen here and thereIn small bright specks upon the visible sideOf our strange being’s party-coloured web.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them...
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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.
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Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
