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All Quotes Collection

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."
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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."
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"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
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"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
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"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
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"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."
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"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
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"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
40

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
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"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
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"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
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"I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor."
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"We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?"
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"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything."
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"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form."
40

"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."
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"The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do."
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"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
40

"Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse."
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