Randolph Bourne Quotes
War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
Laura Lang
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
Rachel Sklar
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
Larry Hagman
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
Vernon Jordan
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
Ian Mcewan
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
Yanis Varoufakis
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
Yael Grobglas
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. Henry
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher
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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
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All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
Meister Eckhart
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
Hal Borland
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My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.
J. J. Watt
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I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.
Ernie Els
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
Randolph Bourne