Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'
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Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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Never get high on your ownly supply.
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The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
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I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
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Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
