People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts. - Rachel Holmes - Quotesmemo.com

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I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

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Rachel Holmes

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

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For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

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We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

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Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.

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The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

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The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

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I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either

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Baltasar Gracian

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A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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