John Engler Quotes
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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We have a rich and vibrant partner ecosystem with several thousand formal business partners. Some of them are very large companies that we collaborate with in many ways.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
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It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.
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I'm magically delicious.
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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
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When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.
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I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
