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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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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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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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
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Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.
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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.
