Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.
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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
