Edward Bellamy Quotes
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
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I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.
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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
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To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
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I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
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Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
