Martin Luther Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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He who is contented is rich.
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.
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A unjust law, is no law at all.
