C. Wright Mills Quotes
The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!
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People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
