John Bright Quotes
The Aristocratic Institutions of England had acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America...in demoralising large classes outside their own special boundaries...in producing a long habit of submission...and in enfeebling by corrupting those who should assail them.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
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I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.
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The Aristocratic Institutions of England had acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America...in demoralising large classes outside their own special boundaries...in producing a long habit of submission...and in enfeebling by corrupting those who should assail them.
