Camille Paglia Quotes
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.
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I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for the meaning of things. That can come off as beauty and style, but that's not where I start from.
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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
