Alexander Fraser Tytler Quotes
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
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Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
