Backbone Quotes - Page 6

• The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Firsts, Socialism, Mass

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• The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

  Patty Schemel

  Song, Whole

  Source: collider.com

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• If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

  Lily Collins

  May, Projects, Knows

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Law, Giving

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• Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

  Owen Jones

  Ideological

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• ... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wicked, Littles, Facts

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.

  Tim McDonald

  Challenges, Mind, Needs

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• We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Dream, Ambition

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• I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Thinking, Drawing, Able

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

  Edward Abbey

  Kissing, Garden, Feet

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.

  Tsung-Dao Lee

  Nature, Powerful, Science

  "Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory: Revised and Updated First Edition". Book by Tsung-Dao Lee, 1981.

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• A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Garden, Should Have, Ideas

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• Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love, Believe, Taken

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin

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• To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Nashville, Forever

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• I didn't choose to be a guitar player. That was something that felt like it was chosen for me. And with that blessing and curse, I, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. And whether I'm standing in the streets of Chicago or the Occupy Wall Street or in Madison, Wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level, for the things that I believe in.

  Tom Morello

  Wall, Believe, Struggle

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

  Caroline Myss

  Needs, Wishbones

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2013

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• America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Country

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• The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, May, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.2877, e-artnow

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• Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Writing, Poetry

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• I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the backbone of the economy. These workers didn't reap the benefit of that system.

  Bryant Terry

  Thinking, Racism, Black

  "MoJo Video: Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen". Interview With Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.

  P. C. Cast

  Men, Religion, Guilt

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Creative, Lucky

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• I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Growth, Mexico

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• I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.

  Gillian Roberts

  Thinking, Offering, House

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