Paul P. Harris Quotes
The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
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I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Looking silly can be ver powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.
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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.
