Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
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August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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If we didn’t have finance, though? Forget the 1970s—try the 1270s. Economic progress emerges from the intelligent combination of capital and innovation. Remove capital from the equation—and the financial markets that accumulate and direct that capital into the hands of innovators—and the result is poverty and stagnation.
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I always read the papers, the political bits.
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I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!
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No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.
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It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
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I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
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I beg your lordship's patience till I can procure my papers. I cannot plead until I have those papers that I insisted upon.
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The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
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We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.
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I think changing the Democratic Party platform at the convention is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.
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I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.
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I haven't got any papers. I have two ears, and I've heard many things.
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I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.
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It is a myth to say that all we need is good leadership, and not restructuring. Leaderships is critical, but depends on structure.
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If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.
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When I see you again, I will be sporting the latest in orthopedic accessories, and I am sure going through the metal detector at the airport is going to be an event.
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The worse that could happen has already happened to me.
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I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.
