Martin Luther Quotes
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.
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We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
