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.Charles A. Beard
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
Naomi Campbell -
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.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The stratosphere is a hostile place.
Felix Baumgartner -
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.'
Faith Prince -
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
Dana Plato
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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.
Rachel Kushner -
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
Gabrielle Union -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Jack Dee -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson -
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
Vanessa Brown
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher -
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.
Pankaj Mishra -
Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
Isaac Hayes -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
Calvin Johnson -
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
Padgett Powell
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls -
Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.
R. Kent Hughes -
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
Abraham Lincoln -
If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
Chuck Grassley -
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.
Charles A. Beard