top quotations of all time
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Al Sharpton We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.
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Alfred Adler We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
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Graeme Murphy We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
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David Oyelowo We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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Tim Berners-Lee We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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Lauryn Hill We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
enjoy shows
Peter Tork There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.
reforms structural voices
Enrique Pena Nieto There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.
sister age supportive
Alvin Lee There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.
Top Happiness quotes
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Paul Ryan There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
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James Cameron There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
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Robert Benchley There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
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Timothy Simons There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'
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Mohammed Morsi There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.
Top Life quotes
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Warren G. Bennis There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Mahatma Gandhi There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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David Hume There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
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Amish Tripathi There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
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Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Top Positive quotes
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Thomas Frank There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
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Loni Anderson There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.
money freedom mean
Calvin Coolidge There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Sophie Marceau There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
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Lord Acton There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Henri Bergson There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
sometimes harm found
John Maynard Keynes There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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Tacitus To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Linda Ronstadt To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.
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Elizabeth Bibesco To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.
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Brunello Cucinelli To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
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Charles Babbage To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
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Leonard Mlodinow Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.
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Jeff Goodell To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
James Stephens To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
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Neel Mukherjee To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.
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Paul Valery To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
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Don Kardong Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.
Paul Hawken Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.
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Robert M. Parker, Jr. Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red.
Top Love quotes
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Michelangelo Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
true-love honor suffering
Ignatius of Loyola True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
stranger truth
Mira Nair Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.
best
Rob Manuel Try celebrating the best and not the worst.
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Barry Manilow 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
Top Romantic quotes
Donna Brazile TV likes you to talk about the superficial.
appreciate civil respect
Rami Malek 'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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Sherilyn Fenn Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
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Miguel Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.
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Albert Brooks Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
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