Quotes with thing-they

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  • Bob Graham The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Aaron Allston The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
    Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Lawrence Durrell The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Gerda Lerner The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
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  • Calvin Coolidge The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Paul Klee The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • William Faulkner The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vaclav Havel The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • St. Edward Aubyn The attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
    St. Edward Aubyn
    English writer and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Billy Wilder The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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