Quotes 161 till 180 of 249.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants - even women! - new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981 -
Sooner or later, all games become serious.
Super-Cannes (2000) -
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
Selected Writings on Computing (1982) p. 101 -
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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