Lincoln Steffens Quotes
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.
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I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
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No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.
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I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
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If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
