Emmett Tyrrell Quotes
The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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I think the only thing that is in my hands is to look good, and that is one thing I will do for sure.
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Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.
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Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.
