Omar N. Bradley Quotes
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.
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Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.
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We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
