Lincoln Steffens Quotes
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.Lincoln Steffens
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne -
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. Bell -
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin -
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson -
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming -
I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova -
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater -
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
Frances Beinecke -
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
Sam Smith -
I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
Patrick Carman -
I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
Harmony Korine -
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks -
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
Frances Farmer
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
Elaine Welteroth -
Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
Longchenpa -
The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.
Wallace Stevens -
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
Lincoln Steffens