Bathsua Makin Quotes
... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I have a couture body.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
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Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
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The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
