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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Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
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I don't take criticism lying down.
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One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.
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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
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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.
