Claude A. Swanson (Claude Augustus Swanson) Quotes
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.
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John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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Be in love with your life every detail of it
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.
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For someone who has ADD, being bored is like being asphyxiated. It cannot be endured for more than a minute or so. When bored, the person with ADD feels compelled to do something immediately to bring the world back up to speed.
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When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
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Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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I just wish I could see myself in me.
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
