I. F. Stone Quotes
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The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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You can't win some people over.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
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Quiet is the new loud.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
