Raymond Williams Quotes
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.
