Counter Quotes
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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A good counter needs no calculator.
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I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
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What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
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Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
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I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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Violence always thrived on counter violence.
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The answer runs counter to some important aspects of U.S. culture— we must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask.
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Counter the effects of culture steering your design ideas by going out and looking for new experiences.
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We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.
