Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • A. R. Ammons A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Joseph Hall A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
    Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • C. Wright Mills A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Mary McCarthy A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Eric Hoffer A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • C. Wren A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Walter Lippmann A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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