Carroll Quigley Quotes

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

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• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

  

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• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

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• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

  

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• We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.

  

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• But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.

  

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• Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  

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• It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Passion

• The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Good
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• Millennials don't go to rallies.

  

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• I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

  

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• Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Religious

• With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

  

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• The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
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• If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

  

  James Hilton

• The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

  

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• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  

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• I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

  

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• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

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  • Different
  • Nature

• Von Hayek was wrong. In strong and vibrant democracies, a generous social-welfare state is not a road to serfdom but rather to fairness, economic equality and international competitiveness.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Strong
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• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
  • Light

• I produce a form, an impression of light, a beauty of tones.. .The etchings are now full of life, an ecstasy, a dance, a gentle motion and fluctuation in tones.

  

  Emil Nolde
  • Life
  • Light
  • Dance

• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Light
  • Revolution
  • Shining