Peter Murphy Quotes
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?
Albert Brooks
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I either go all in or all out.
Carlos Beruff
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Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
Andre Geim
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We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.
Daniel Hannan
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.
William Farr
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
Irving Kristol
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If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
Flannery O'Connor
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Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
Dagobert D. Runes
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[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.
Peter Murphy
Bauhaus
