Gaetano Mosca Quotes
If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
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Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.
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It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.
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We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
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If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.
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In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.
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I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
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The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.
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Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
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If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.
