Alec Stewart Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.
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It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.
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In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.
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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
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Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
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This is totally remarkable given the lack of Mr. Cook's specific connection and his decision that the University of Pittsburgh was an appropriate place to steward this American treasure - this undisturbed site.
