Charles Hugh Smith Quotes
Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
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There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
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As an American citizen, one has to vote.
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In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
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We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
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Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
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The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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One alternative for Bosnia-Herzegovina is Europe. ... It is about creating a better life for all (of the country's) citizens.
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
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Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.
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I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.
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There a certain kind of vague doublespeak took hold and became part of everyday conversations. A person might say they worked at a “post office box” developing a “device,” but their meaning was immediately clear. In this way the Soviet population was co-opted into becoming a part of the system.
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Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity
