Jane Addams Quotes
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Quotes to Explore
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.
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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
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Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
