Issue Quotes
1900 quotes by 1526 authors
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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues,…
— Al Yankovic
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As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism…
— Holly Robinson Peete
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I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio…
— Christine Quinn
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Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet…
— Neal Stephenson
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Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
— Luce Irigaray
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Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences,…
— Fritjof Capra
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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
— Mark Twain
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to…
— Emily Giffin
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Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do…
— Ayn Rand
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The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which…
— Frantz Fanon
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The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature…
— Barack Obama
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I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already…
— Rob Bell
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This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way…
— George Saunders
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If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest…
— William Shakespeare
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At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as…
— George Clooney
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Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
— George Orwell
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