We’ve collected the best Them Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Niccolo Machiavelli, Madam C. J. Walker, E. W. Howe, Martin Luther, Lee Haney. Use them as an inspiration.
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Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
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I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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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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I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
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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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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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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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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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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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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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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
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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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Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, ‘What a jerk!’ It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
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If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
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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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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.
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Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it’s an honor. It’s just an honor to be a comedian.
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I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
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If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
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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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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
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Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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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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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
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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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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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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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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break 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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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
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People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
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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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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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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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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 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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
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Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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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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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
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I love fools‘ experiments. I am always making them.
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
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Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate 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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The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
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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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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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I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
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I’m not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
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I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
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People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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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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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed 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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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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The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
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You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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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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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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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
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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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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in 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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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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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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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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‘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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As long as somebody ‘CTC,’ at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t know what CTC means, that’s ‘Cut The Check.’
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We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
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If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
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Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
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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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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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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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Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe 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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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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Employees are a company‘s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.
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What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
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Let them eat cake.
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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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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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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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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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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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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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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging 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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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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What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.
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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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Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read 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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There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
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No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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The most obvious things are often right there, but you don’t think about them because you’ve narrowed your vision.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
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Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
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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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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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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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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
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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 think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
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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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They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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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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Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent 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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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won’t start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won’t start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That’s pretty much my principle.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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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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When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
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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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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
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Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for 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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I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
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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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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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I’ve been very fortunate to have good people in my life, and when you find good people, you gotta hold onto them real tight.
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I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
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I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
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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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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
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Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
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The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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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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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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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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Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, 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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
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