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Walter Lippmann

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ROBERT E. HOWARD When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their id...
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WENDELL WILLKIE If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...
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WADE HORN As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
PYTHAGORAS Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
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DEYTH BANGER We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.
THOMAS S. MONSON Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w...
GORE VIDAL No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of ...
KAREN BLIXEN Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas alo...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop o...
ERIC CANTONA Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
JOHN UPDIKE If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
VINCENT VAN GOGH If they are no longer in the county and no longer producing in the county, they have to pay the loan...
LYNN BASS Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
SIGMUND FREUD If u believe in fantasies, they are no longer fantasies.
YAMIN RASHEED The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Many people are weakened by hunger. They can no longer walk long distances to fetch water. They ofte...
IRIS KREBBER Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose ...
SIGMUND FREUD When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they...
THOMAS S. MONSON When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as the...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contr...
GINA BARRECA The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
GLORIA ALLRED I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lu...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lu...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our...
RUDOLF STEINER In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people.... they no long...
KEN BLANCHARD Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they...
ULRICH BECK Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
MARILYN FRENCH Good or bad, let them talk, for when they talk no more, you no longer are ...
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, a...
C.G. JUNG Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilise...
GEORGE ORWELL Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do ju...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they ...
MILAN KUNDERA The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriag...
RICK SANTORUM How can we have access to women when the rules state they must not mingle with any men unless they a...
STEPHANIE BUNKER Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of...
PETER KREEFT I must be getting old,i can no longer remember the future.
ARTHUR LEWIS If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
HENRY MILLER To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just ...
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET They feel they no longer need to go broke when they go shopping,
KURT BARNARD In December, what (Albertsons) meant when they said they were no longer for sale is that they are no...
HARRY WHITE They hide, and they wait until they can no longer support the pain.
GUILLERMO VICUNA The San are no longer masters of their destiny. They can no longer practice hunting and gathering, s...
BEN ULENGA 'Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak...
JOHN SELDEN As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
MARCEL PROUST A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD M. BARUCH Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
WOODROW WILSON Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
CHARLES DICKENS In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no l...
KEN BLANCHARD Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Not only have people stopped trying to be
attractive when they are out among other people, but...
MILAN KUNDERA It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are tol...
EMIL M. CIORAN The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have bec...
BENNY HINN You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never...
RAYMOND E. FEIST When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can on...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI Here is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cur...
MARTIN H. FISCHER If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become...
JOHN W. GARDNER If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they ar...
DAVID BOHM Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no...
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he ma...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When they get that number, we will be working with them, to help move them into longer term housing ...
DON JACKS If Siegel Middle has reached a point that it can no longer take students without going into portable...
DONALD JERNIGAN With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.
JOHN WEBSTER There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies
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TERRY GREENE The family no longer believes they can handle the case.
CLIFFORD MARSHALL When consumers realize they can no longer expect that appreciation bonus to subsidize their consumpt...
CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect...
C.S. LEWIS At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a cele...
JEAN VANIER Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge ...
AMELIA EARHART Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. The ignorant become stupid - when they no longer perceive or willfully ignore their own lack of know...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become m...
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JUERGEN RECK Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get som...
KATHA POLLITT Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be cor...
IAIN PEARS They feminize our men, de-feminize our women; then they televise it in order to destroy future gener...
LAWRENCE CARTER (MACC SICC THA DON “Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe...
JOANNA AJ Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
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WALTER BECKER From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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