Carrie Nation (Carrie Amelia Nation) Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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What goes up can continue.
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The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical.' All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
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A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick.
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I am surrounded by a small group of young landscapists who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy, there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that it's a good thing.
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We had enough of people who think like you, that they know what god wants and that they've got god on their side. That they can tell us what to do or what to think in this way.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
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Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
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My dad went to law school at night while working full-time. He has an unparalleled work ethic and has passed down to me his passion for playing and watching sports. I love him dearly.
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The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.