Quotes with hit-and-run

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  • Ben Shapiro The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
    Source: Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Boris Sidis The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
    Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Walter Lippmann The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Lord Jeffrey The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
    Lord Jeffrey
     
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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Levitt The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Milovan Djilas The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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  • Salvador Dali The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Joseph Conrad The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
    Source: The sacred agent (1907)
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carl Levin The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bill Nelson The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Robert Fitzgerald The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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