Nicholas Roerich Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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Artists need to express.
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
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We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
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Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
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Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
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It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.
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I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
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One must manifest discipline of spirit; without it one cannot become free.
