Daniel Berrigan Quotes
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I don't like possessions.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.
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The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.
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The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
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My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
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No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
