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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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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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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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion
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Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.
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Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
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Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.
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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.
