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Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#curse #duty #everything #great #other

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

#bravery #courage #doing #escaping #greatness

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#always #happiness #other #own #people

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#accepting #chooses #egoism #exist #far

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#domination #frees #him #his #ideals

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#currency #enough #gold #never #redeem

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting. ↗

— John Robinson

#acting #being #come #competitive #could

Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating. ↗

— John Robinson

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