Quotes with hit-and-run

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  • C. L. R. James In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bob Schaffer In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Dhammapada In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Alan Dundes In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Agnes Smedley In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run we are all dead.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Carl Sagan In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carter G. Woodson In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run, we are all dead.
    Source: A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch.3
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Sheldon Kopp In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Blake McIver Ewing In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • B. Zander In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
    B. Zander
     
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  • John Millington Synge In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Barbara Olson In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
    Source: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Angela Carter In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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