Sargent Shriver Quotes
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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I'm sort of a slob.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - 'Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!'
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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
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There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.
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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
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I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.
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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
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What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
