Jeremy Bentham Quotes
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.Jeremy Bentham
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
Carl Lewis -
Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov -
The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Gale Norton -
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg -
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
Safra A. Catz -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis -
Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
Nancy Kress
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik -
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman -
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
Iris Apfel -
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones -
I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
Utada Hikaru -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
Vince Gill -
I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.
Debi Mazar -
Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
Kevin Systrom -
There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.
John Hume -
If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.
Alexander Graham Bell -
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.
Jeremy Bentham