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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Beginning Binds Conditions Ever Fixed Great Great Idea How Idea Law Place Regardless Stationary Time Us Wheel Which Within

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I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

~Eric Liu

Topics: America Arrogance Best Cover Fixed Know Left Like Many Our People Power Privilege Sound Suspicious Them White Words

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It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

~Eric Liu

Topics: Cameras Fixed Humans Judges Monitoring Out Robots Traffic Turns Umpires Zone

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Beautiful Biologically Creates Fixed Given Human Human Nature Man Most Most Beautiful Nature Part Process Result Social Ugly Well Which

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

~Ernest Renan

Topics: Become Fixed Opinions Our Point Stop Thinking Where

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Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Because Claim Clearly Fixed Lost Manufacture Moment Most Mystery Offered Pocket Products Relic Resemble Time Watches Why

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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

~Everett Dirksen

Topics: Am First Fixed Flexible Man Principles Times Which I Am

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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Aphorism Blood Cold Dull Experiences Fixed Heart Ink Live Mere Our Turns Write

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Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

~Fabrizio Moreira

Topics: Being Counterparts Course Does Easier Entrepreneur Fixed Freedom Give Going Greater Mistaken Schedule Someone Than Think Tied Who Work You Your

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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: America Bad Cannot Circumstances Exists Fact Fast Fixed Freely Living Misperceptions Muslim Muslim World Muslims Needs Our Perception Practice Practicing Pray Prayers Religion Truth Very Which World

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