Ian Lustick Quotes
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.
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People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?
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My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
