Peter Maurer Quotes
We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
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I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.
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A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.
