Chris Kluwe Quotes

#1. Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Justinian I

#2. Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.

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#3. I first started using the internet back when a 14.4 modem was considered fast. I think I was about 11 or 12, and it fascinated me that you could look at all these different things on your computer.

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#4. Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Harper Lee

#5. We always take ourselves back to the start to try and find out why things happened; to try and force some blame into some day or some month or into some half-shaded memory.

Grace Bowman

#6. If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?

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#7. I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

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#8. Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

Ingrid Betancourt

#9. In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

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#10. People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.

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#11. Above all, enjoy one another's company. We never know when we'll be able to tell someone "I love you" again - say it often.

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#12. No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.

Walter E. Williams

#13. Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.

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#14. To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny ... though ... I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#15. I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

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#16. That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

Adrian Tomine

#17. As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?

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#18. I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot,

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#19. In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.

Ofra Strauss

#20. In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.

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#21. I won't feel that I failed. I'll be a little disappointed in the NFL ...

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#22. One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.

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#23. Two-factor economics makes it clear that our economic problem is not what one-factor (labor-centric) thinkers assert: an inequitable distribution of income. It is an inequitable distribution of productive power, from which an unworkable distribution of income results.

Louis O. Kelso

#24. The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#25. There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one of the first ones to make it to pro sports. It's more a societal thing than an athletics thing.

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#26. There is always a method in the seeming chaos of creation" - The Monk

Shashi

#27. I've always had an addictive nature.

Gail Porter

#28. Never be afraid to do what's right. If no one ever says anything, nothing ever changes.

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#29. I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

Margaret Mahy

#30. Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.

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#31. Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

John Bunyan

#32. Get off your horse and drink your milk.

John Wayne