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Image of Rob Bell
[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.
- Rob Bell
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Image of Jim Butcher
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
- Jim Butcher
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Peter Singer
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers
- Peter Singer
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Image of George Washington
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.
- George Washington
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Image of Ralph Marston
When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.
- Ralph Marston
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Image of Patti Smith
People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
- Patti Smith
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Image of James Surowiecki
In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.
- James Surowiecki
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Robert Collier
First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.
- Robert Collier
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Image of Patrick Rothfuss
All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
- Patrick Rothfuss
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Image of Ayn Rand
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Image of Frank O'Hara
It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.
- Frank O'Hara
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Image of Bette Midler
The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
- Bette Midler
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Image of Assata Shakur
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.
- Assata Shakur
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Image of David Ogilvy
Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.
- David Ogilvy
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Image of David Ogilvy
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising
- David Ogilvy
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Image of Viola Davis
I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.
- Viola Davis
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Image of Amy Tan
I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
- Amy Tan
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Image of Sathya Sai Baba
Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."
- Sathya Sai Baba
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Image of George Will
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.
- George Will
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Steven Soderbergh
I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
- Steven Soderbergh
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Image of Steven Soderbergh
I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
- Steven Soderbergh
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Image of C.P. Snow
There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
- C.P. Snow
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Image of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Image of Cornel West
So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.
- Cornel West
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Image of Cornel West
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.
- Cornel West
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Image of Cornel West
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
- Cornel West
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Image of Edward Abbey
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
The improved means to the unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Donald Trump
I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Donald Trump
I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don't - maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?
- Donald Trump
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Image of Gloria Steinem
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.
- Gloria Steinem
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Image of Jonathan Swift
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Debra Messing
Oh my God the fantasies are my favorite thing that we do each episode by far. And the great thing now is that instead of one an episode sometimes we do as many as two. We did one in each of the mini-series. And so far - I mean I keep thinking I can't have another favorite and then they keep topping it.
- Debra Messing
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Image of Richard M. Nixon
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
- Richard M. Nixon
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Image of Barack Obama
American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Anne Rice
What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?
- Anne Rice
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Image of Chris Brown
My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.
- Chris Brown
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Lack is more in means, than in principles.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of Maria Montessori
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Maria Montessori
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Image of John Wooden
Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.
- John Wooden
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