Raymond Williams Quotes

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

Raymond Williams

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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
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• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
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• I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

  

  Verite
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• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
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• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
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• This album was total therapy. I'm way more at peace now. Writing these songs and saying everything we had to say makes it possible to move on.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • Peace
  • Album

• True art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • True
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• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Learning
  • Spiritual
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• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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• There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
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• I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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• It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion
  • Examine

• The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.

  

  David Cannadine
  • People
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  • Giving

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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  • He

• Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Sleep
  • Ideas
  • Dreams

• I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Golf
  • Watching
  • Enjoying

• It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Judgment
  • Communism
  • Rational