A. C. Benson Quotes
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
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I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
