John Shimkus Quotes
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I love Chicago.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
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I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
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Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
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Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.
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When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.
