Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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My daughters are my Picassos.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
