Bernard Joseph Saurin Quotes
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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I don't know anything about music.
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My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.
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The law often allows what honor forbids.
