H. W. Brands Quotes
Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.
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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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The world needs some help.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas tree. These items remind people of their childhood; we just re-create them with adult flavors.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.
