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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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!
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The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.
