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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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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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused at being called 'bossy,' because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents - but the boys were not.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
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... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
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If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
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... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
