Peter Maurer Quotes
Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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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 had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
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Power to the peaceful.
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However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and things symbolized are independent of each other; nevertheless, we all have a way of feeling as if
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Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.
