Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes
The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
Quotes to Explore
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
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Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
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Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
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After all is said and done, sit down.
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You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
