I. F. Stone Quotes
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I'm a character actor.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.
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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.
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There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
