Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Abbie Hoffman

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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Abbie Hoffman

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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

Abbie Hoffman

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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

Abbie Hoffman

Against Always Blows Change

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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abba Eban

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer

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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

Ear Elegance Flexibility Glued

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

Ground Past Theatre Cities

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin

Reality Scope Process Adjustment

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Walter Benjamin

True Instant Picture Image

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

Interest Judgments Matter Only

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin

Power Life Facts Present

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Walter Benjamin

Conquers Destruction Ecstasy Frenzy

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin

Authority Borrowed Death Everything

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

Conspicuous Failings Inability Mankind

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot

Anomaly Bell Difficult Dinner

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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

Being Hasty Human Leap

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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

Secret Death Real Soul

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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Walter Bagehot

Spectacle Agent Simply Also

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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Walter Bagehot

Element Soft Great Virtues

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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Bagehot

Slight Gentle Luxury Air

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Samuel Johnson

Alone Born Complaining Crying

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

Deliberation How Idle Life

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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

Afford He Life London

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

Alive Being Dead Isn't

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

Any Been Calamity Escaped

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

Begins Best Boundaries Death

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Samuel Johnson

Alive Die He Life

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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot

Concentrated Energy Essence Real

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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Walter Bagehot

Long Punish Wish Unwise

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society

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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden

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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Victor Borge

Know Only Other Pieces

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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

Appearance Head Her Improves

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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Aaron Sorkin

Asked Attention Drama Gotten

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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Victor Borge

Back Daylight Going Hour

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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Aaron Sorkin

Area Communication Communication Skills Day

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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

Being Combination Dumb Life

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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

Avoiding Being Combination Coming

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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Elizabeth Taylor

About Any Autobiographies Me

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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Ronald Reagan

Better Horse Inside Man

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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello

Life My Ultimate Vocation

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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Robert F. Kennedy

Dedicate Gentle Greeks Let Us

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Life for me is about movement.

Elvis Costello

About Life Me Movement

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Robert F. Kennedy

Does Ends Free Life

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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

Elvis Costello

Experience Far Had Life

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Elvis Presley

Else Every Every Time Getting

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In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.

Robert F. Kennedy

Best Cases Courts Federal

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I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

Emma Watson

Bubble Complete Control Desperately

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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Emma Watson

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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Eartha Kitt

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"6076 Life Quotes

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Abbie Hoffman

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Abbie Hoffman

I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

Abbie Hoffman

The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

Abbie Hoffman

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Walter Bagehot

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Walter Bagehot

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Bagehot

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Samuel Johnson

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Walter Bagehot

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Victor Borge

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Aaron Sorkin

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Victor Borge

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Aaron Sorkin

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.