Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
