C. Wright Mills Quotes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
