Long Ago Quotes - Page 18

• Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  World, May, Made

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.151

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• I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Reality, People

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• [God] is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it.

  Erastus Snow

  Blessing, People, Waiting

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• Museums that aren't perfect are the ones that I love. Museums that aren't overdesigned. I always like to visit the strange, odd museums. In New York, the Frick is absolutely my favorite, favorite place because I like to think that it was someone's home not that long ago.

  Reed Krakoff

  New York, Home, Thinking

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• Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Country, Memories, Moving

  "Bill Moyers: Where the Right Went Wrong". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.truth-out.org. February 12, 2012.

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• What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Presidential, Olympics

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• Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

  Chris Hardwick

  Brain, Wake Up, May

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.81, Penguin

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• I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

  Anne Frank

  War, Believe, Men

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.164, Bantam

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• We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Men, Should Have, World Religions

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• I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.

  Robert Barry

  Ideas, Trying, Want

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.

  John Shelby Spong

  Children, Cities, Ideas

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

  Clare Wright

  Women, Want, Granted

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• It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a row became known as the bald-headed row. It might be assumed from this on statistical evidence that the continued close observation of chorus girls in tights caused loss of hair from the top of the head.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Girl, Cancer, Loss

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• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Years, Ideas, Age

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, People, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.

  Astra Taylor

  Issues, Too Much, Lobbying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

  David Bowie

  Kids, Race, Rocks

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

  John Cage

  Landscape, Hearing, Window

  John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.122, Wesleyan University Press

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• We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Unity, Lines

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• If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Heaven, Expansion

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• I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

  Iggy Pop

  Knowing, Comfort, Relief

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• There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Requirements, October

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• George W. Bush's position on illegal immigration is a perfect example of a political compromise. A true conservative would have built a border fence, dug a moat and stationed troops on the border long ago.

  Jeff Gannon

  Perfect, Political, Immigration

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• Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The important thing when you are tied down is to continue to model Christ's love. This will ensure that your words, perhaps spoken long ago, will have fresh relevance, or it will help little ones to understand what it means to live the Christian life in days to come. A life well-lived in these circumstances can be hugely useful in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Mean, Important

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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