Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).
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dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)
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I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
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Spiritual superiority consists in deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
