Albert J. Nock Quotes
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I like to wear jewellery, even though I like my look to be minimalist. When I go out for events, I like to have at least one statement piece. It always adds glamour.
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Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
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I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.
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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
