George Carey Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was. Remember the Wallmakers. Remember Me.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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The PC police are out in force at all times. ... We've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.
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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
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Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.
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The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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Ordinary people can bring about change.
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
