Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
