Agnes Smedley Quotes

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

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• We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

  

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• We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

  

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• I was very rebellious.

  

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• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

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• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  

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• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

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• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

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• The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.

  

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• We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

  

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• I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

  

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• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

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• You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

  

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• The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.

  

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• Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

  

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• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

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• I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

  

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• Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

  

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• What creates reality is not reality, but you.

  

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• In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.

  

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• Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

  

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• More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Free
  • Question
  • Forever