George J. Mitchell Quotes
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I personally pay, through the majority of my stock and through cash, college tuitions of our full-time employees' kids. Life-changing events are generally covered by Boxed as well.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
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I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
