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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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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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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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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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 wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Be your money's master, not its slave.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car.
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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.
