Amanda Marcotte Quotes
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
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I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
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The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
