David D. Aitken Quotes
Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.
David D. Aitken
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
Natasha Trethewey
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
Bailee Madison
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
Quiara Alegria Hudes
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
Sam Shepard
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Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
Katha Pollitt
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
Nancy Pearcey
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.
Maiwenn
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
Taylor Swift
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To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk sic so low, or grovelled so serenely.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
H. R. McMaster
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Gary Zukav
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Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.
David D. Aitken
