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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
— Herbert Read
Tags: just, will, new, religion
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
— Henry Rollins
Tags: curious, been, about, country, history
Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
— Chevy Chase
Tags: well, famous, nobody, you
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
— Henrik Ibsen
Tags: commitment
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.
— Paul Johnson
Tags: president, nation, past, leadership
I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.
— David Chang
Tags: school, humble, great, you
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
— Laura Esquivel
Tags: magic, people, technology, nature
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
— Vaclav Klaus
Tags: must, rules, support, time
The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
— Mike Simpson
Tags: american, price, only, world
I had a dream about you last night. We watched pornography together, but purely for the storyline.
— Michael Summers I Had a Dream About You
Tags: sleeping, sleep, relationships, life, humor, funny, dreams, dreaming
From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
— Ingmar Bergman
Tags: said, sense-of-humor, humor, age
I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.
— Marcel Dionne
Tags: just, play, time, you
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
— Samuel Johnson
Tags: education
A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.
— Nigel Lawson
Tags: package, even, tax, impact
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
— Jacqueline Carey
Tags: everyone, temptation, power, struggle
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
— Bill Watterson The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Tags: school, humor
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
— Lou Reed
Tags: read, like, life
The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.
— Adrian Tomine
Tags: more, person, reading, think
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
— George Washington
Tags: only, down, free, government
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
— Marilyn Monroe
Tags: sometimes, dinner, people, yourself, you
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