Famous Quotes: Person

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
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The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.
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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
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