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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#exercised #fact #itself #liberty #survives

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#begin #live #longer #only

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#alternative #argument #because #could #examine

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#completely #contrived #could #developed #each

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches

God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong. ↗

— Melissa Coleman

#mystical #spiritual #spirituality #universe #dreams

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. ↗

— Robert Adams

#evocative #most #observed #probably #television

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset. ↗

— Sandy Adams

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It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. ↗

— Robert Adamson

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