Charles Kennedy Quotes
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
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Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.
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Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.
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I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
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The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
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You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
