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Their Own Quotes by Kenny Smith
- Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of…
- Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to…
- Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander…
- American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the…
- I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people…
- The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think…
- Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu