Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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I elevated passions into duties. (p.s. That's not enough…)
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
