Albert Parsons Quotes
Anarchy is a free society where there is no concentrated or centralized power, no State, no king, no emperor, no ruler, no president, no magistrate, no potentate of any character whatever. Law is the enslaving power of man.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.
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Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.
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It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
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Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...
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Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of the Tohoku region - and also to show everyone around the world that Japan is doing fine again. These are messages we have to convey through the power of sport.
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Anarchy is a free society where there is no concentrated or centralized power, no State, no king, no emperor, no ruler, no president, no magistrate, no potentate of any character whatever. Law is the enslaving power of man.
