Raymond Williams Quotes
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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
Jack Keane
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
Victor Papanek
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
Cameron Crowe
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Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
Angela Davis
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
Lucille Clifton
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
Douglas Jerrold
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
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Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.
John Watson
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
Bruce Sterling
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Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
Vito Fossella
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If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.
Vladimir Putin
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
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Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.
William Rehnquist
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I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.
William Styron
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Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern.
William Wallace
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It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
Stormzy
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I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
Roger Federer
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Every job, once you get there and start doing it, you approach it the same way. And it does become a serious thing, because it's not easy to do, even something silly. You still have to be professional and perform.
Ray Wise
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As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
Barbara Demick
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
Immanuel Kant
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
Raymond Williams