Nick Clooney (Nicholas Joseph Clooney) Quotes
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.
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Crime is a form of 'unorganized' class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.
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I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.
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We were against oppression, and then we elevated our struggle to demand our rights. We will go against all the dictators, and not only Saleh in Yemen, so we can spread peace.
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Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.
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I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
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When people just decide they're going to reconvene, there's no guarantee that they're going to have any of that chemistry. Sometimes people try to do that, and it's a struggle to try to recreate what once was.
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We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.
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I've gone through literally over 30 years of struggle with weight and food and body image... and I'm like, 'Wait a minute.'
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I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
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Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
