Elizabeth Samet Quotes
The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
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If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
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When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
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The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
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The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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Obedience to authority saves many skins.
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If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
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The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.
