Popular Quotes
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The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
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The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
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There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.
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The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.
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In New York City, it's popular. I used to think to myself, 'Man, there's a lot of gay people out here.' And it had me comfortable: it was like, I can be myself! I used to still try to hide it, until it was really overwhelming - there were just too much girls attracted to me!
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The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.
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I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
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I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
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For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
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I am one with the popular culture.
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I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.
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Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
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I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
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All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.
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Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
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Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.
