Joycelyn Elders Quotes
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'm a huge believer in power of women on the web.
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
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We didn't do enough offensively to get it done, and we don't usually say that.
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And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
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The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
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In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.
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I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.
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There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.
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Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as the Diverticule of the Felines in Lascaux and the Horse’s Tail in Altamira, induces altered states of consciousness.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
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So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
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One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.
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To do good is difficult. One who does good first does something hard to do. I have done many good deeds, and, if my sons, grandsons and their descendants up to the end of the world act in like manner, they too will do much good. But whoever amongst them neglects this, they will do evil. Truly, it is easy to do evil.
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You're too young to let the world break you.
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There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
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Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.
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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
