Frances Perkins Quotes
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
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Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
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I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.
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Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
