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 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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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 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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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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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
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January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.
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What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.
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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
