Charles Sumner Quotes
Worse than any heathen or pagan abroad are those in our midst who are false to our institutions.
Quotes to Explore
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.
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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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That was some really great 'fatcting'.
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Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
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Holy Week is a time to think about risk, because that’s what this whole Passion narrative represents.
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No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
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Worse than any heathen or pagan abroad are those in our midst who are false to our institutions.
