Charles Kennedy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
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I know the devil haunting loneliness.
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A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers.
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
