Wendy Beckett (Sister Wendy) Quotes
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
Jack Kingston
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells
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Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
Sam Heughan
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
Mads Mikkelsen
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Ed Sheeran
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Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
Vanessa Marcil
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
Beau Garrett
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Russell T. Davies Torchwood Everything Changes
Rain
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God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Paracelsus
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
Benito Mussolini
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'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'
Clifford D. Simak
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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.
Craig Raine
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
Eileen Myles
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26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?
Donald Trump
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The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.
John Searle
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Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small, That stood along the floor and by the wall; And some loquacious Vessels were; and some Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
Omar Khayyam
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He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.
Livy
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All great art is a visual form of prayer.
Wendy Beckett