Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Bainbridge Colby The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • John W. Gardner The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • C. Wright Mills The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
    Source: The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Douclas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douclas MacArthur
    American general (1880 - 1964)
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  • Ben Gibbard The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Washington Irving The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Stephen Leacock The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Traherne The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Epictetus The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • E. M. Cioran The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Margaret Mitchell The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Boris Kodjoe The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Georges Bataille The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Walter Bagehot The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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