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Frances Wright Quotes

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 6, 1795 - December 13, 1852

Topics

Action Consequences Look Wrong Place

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.

Faith Community War Influence Party

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.

John Edgar Wideman

History Culture Speak Generation

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Perfection Loved Suffer Loved One

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

Day Growing Up Green Growing Heroes

In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of unconventional weapons - until after he invaded Kuwait.

Good Intelligence Late Missed Israel

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

Management Better Long Land Battles

I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.

Juan Diego Florez

Fun Long Dangerous Jump Flexible

We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.

Live Better Environment Seem Studio

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Compassion Final Misery Prevent Then

Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

Love People Labor More Pay See

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

Work Funny City Me World Urban

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Baby Chill Universe Museum Two Half

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