Gerrit Smith Quotes
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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I'm covered with loser dust.
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
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Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.
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There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
