Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Them Quotes from famous persons: Montesquieu, Aristotle, David Livingstone, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Them Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn’t fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it’s been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
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Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
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When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
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‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
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No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
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What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
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If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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I know who I am. I am not perfect. I’m not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I’m one of them.
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Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
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I woke up one day and thought, ‘Enough is enough with bullying myself.’ The war is within you, and that’s also where it’s won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
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It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
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Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
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Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
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Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
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The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
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I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
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Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.
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I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
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Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
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When it comes to your partner, you have to choose the right person, knowing you can live with them for the rest of your life, learn from each other and grow in every way.
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I love fools‘ experiments. I am always making them.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
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People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.
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I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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In every age ‘the good old days‘ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
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I absolutely adore cows. They’re the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
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We live in a disposable society. It’s easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
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I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
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It’s okay for me to make jokes about disabled people and people with horrible diseases because they make me uncomfortable, and I don’t want to be like them.
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
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You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
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People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it’s up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.
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God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
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I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
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You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
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If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
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It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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If your team is in the trenches, you’ve got to be in the trenches with them.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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I am a bad boy. I don’t come across clearly to a lot of people, so I am bad for them.
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Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
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I have to ask Allah‘s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
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My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
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Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
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I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
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I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.
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I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what‘s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.
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It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
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Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
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I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them – life is too short to spend it unhappy.
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I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
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There’s only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
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When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
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Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
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I’m not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.
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If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
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As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
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I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
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It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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Leave them wanting more and you know they’ll call you back.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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I’m a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God’s greatest creations, I really do. They’re interesting and intriguing.
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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
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Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
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I have made a lot of mistakes, but I am proud of them all.
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Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
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I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
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True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
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Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
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It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
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The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
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Different people have different opinions, and it’s okay to respect all of them.
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Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they’re not just lying around on the surface.
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The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
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The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
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I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
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Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
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If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
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The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
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I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
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If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
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Life is short but love your loved ones. Love them, kiss them every day because you don’t know what’s going to happen.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.
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I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
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People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
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There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn’t be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
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The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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I don’t think that one moment in people’s life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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America is dumb. It’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you – aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I’d like them to see America as a toy – a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
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Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
