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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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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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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Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
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You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.
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Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.
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One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
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Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.
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The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.
