Eden Robinson Quotes

While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

Eden Robinson

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Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

Joan Jett

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I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Joey Skaggs

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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Andrea Dworkin

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My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

John McAfee

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My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

John Mellencamp

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I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.

Meredith Brooks

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No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

John Wycliffe

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I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

Stephen Baldwin

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

Deborah Sampson

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Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Christian Lous Lange

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