Benedict Anderson Quotes
This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
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We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
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Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
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Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
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Loved people are loving people.
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President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
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These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
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Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.
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Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
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Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?
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War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.
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This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
