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Wes Jackson

We need to be saying, 'Listen folks, capitalism is inherently destructive.' How do we get from where we are to where we need to be... We have got to get rid of capitalism.

Attention | Culture | Global | Television |

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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

Television | Will | Think |

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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

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Walter J. Ong, fully Walter Jackson Ong

Where grapholects exist, "correct" grammar and usage are popularly interpreted as the grammar and usage of the grapholect itself to the exclusion of the grammar and usage of the other dialects.

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Walter Mondale, fully Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Fairness | Politics | Television |

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Wendell Berry

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

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Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.

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Vince Gill

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

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Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

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Despite all the political misery I am confronted with every day, it still is my profound conviction that the very essence of politics is not dirty; dirt is brought in only by wicked people. I admit that this is an area of human activity where the temptation to advance through unfair actions may be stronger than elsewhere, and which thus makes higher demands on human integrity. But it is not true at all that a politician cannot do without lying or intriguing. That is sheer nonsense, often spread by those who want to discourage people from taking an interest in public affairs. Of course, in politics, just as anywhere else in life, it is impossible and it would not be sensible always to say everything bluntly. Yet that does not mean one has to lie. What is needed here are tact, instinct and good taste.

Era | Television | Time | War |

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Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan, and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

Freedom | Problems | Television |

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Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

I look at the Augusteum, and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

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Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you" to dessert that night. And for what?!

Control | Family | Power | Television |

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Future | Hope | Television | Will |

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

As the ate afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.

Age | Television | Will |

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Professor Richard N. Current fusses, not irrelevantly, about the propriety of fictionalising actual political figures. I also fuss about this. But he has fallen prey to the scholar-squirrel's delusion that there is a final Truth revealed only to the tenured few in their footnote maze; in this he is simply naÃ¯ve.

Advice | Age | Opportunity | Television |

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