James Cook Quotes
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
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My genius is in my nostrils.
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Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.
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What is written is more influential than what is said.
