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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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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Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
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I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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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.
