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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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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.
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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.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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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 -
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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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.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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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.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
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Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
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I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.
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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.
