Amitav Ghosh Quotes
The government to you is what God is to agnostics-only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Amitav Ghosh
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
Ralph Nader
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
Lamar Hunt
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
Wallace Shawn
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
Waka Flocka Flame
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.
Barack Obama
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In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
Vincente Minnelli
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The government to you is what God is to agnostics-only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Amitav Ghosh
