Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.
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It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a
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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
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What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
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Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
