A. J. Muste Quotes
The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.
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I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
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I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
