Doris Lilly Quotes
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
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Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
