Edmund Morris Quotes
Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I'm very interested in science.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
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The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people who are part of special interests make the decision. And I think that's a worse system than the one we have.
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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Family time is really important to me.
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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
