Albert J. Nock Quotes
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.Albert J. Nock
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
Sam Yagan -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner -
I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
Kaia Gerber -
The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
Dambisa Moyo
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
Oliver Hudson -
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge -
Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
Vidal Sassoon -
I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
Carey Lowell -
Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
Karen Morley
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara -
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
Page McConnell -
Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
Sam Graves
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The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.
Lupita Nyong'o -
For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville -
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Idries Shah -
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers -
I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.
Franklin Cover -
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Albert J. Nock