Merle Shain Quotes
The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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I talk too much.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What makes me special?' and I started to find most of my value in the fact that I was thin.
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My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
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There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
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I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
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Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.
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The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
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God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.
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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.
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I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
