Mercy Otis Warren Quotes
No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
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What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
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I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform.
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Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."
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I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.
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Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
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Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.
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No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
