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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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
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As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens' Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County.
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Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
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... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.