John Foster Dulles Quotes
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
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I'm from the old school - you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it's unfortunate.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.
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Sometimes we walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin.
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Your problem is your role models were models.
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It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.
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We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.
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Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
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We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.
