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Albert Pike Quotes

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1809 - April 2, 1891

Topics

Live Fire Man Burn Off Far

I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

Shoes School Dress Door You Pajamas

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Jennifer Granholm

Year Debt Company Up Bigger Four

My sexuality, in terms of 'Strictly' or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.

Life My Life Whatever Sexuality Big

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Life Daily Myself Daily Life Think

Establishing a 'livable wage' floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.

Stephanie Coontz

Women Men American Pay Floor Gap

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

Time Research World Deep Thought

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

People Theatre Go Where I Came Came

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

Joshua Oppenheimer

People Escape Movies Admire Tell

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Alone Light Sun Night Believe Stand

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

Money People Winning Think Long Run

If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.

You Nice Hot Everyone Get

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Good Time Job People You Back

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