Quotes with get-out

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  • Walter Lippmann No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Cyril Connolly No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Seneca No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
    Van Paassen interview (1936)
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No man ever listened himself out of a job.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Thomas Jefferson No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lily Tomlin No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Al Gore No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bert McCracken No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bart Stupak No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Raymond Holliwell No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Samuel Johnson No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Miller No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Toni Morrison No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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