Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.
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The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
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Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
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Nothing is born, nothing dies.
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At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
