Charles A. Beard Quotes
Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
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People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth more than your house or your stock portfolio. As people decide whether they're going to buy a car, they're more concerned about whether they have a job and are likely to have a job next year.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
