Scott Ritter Quotes
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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…the cold deflation of crapula…
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Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
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Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
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In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
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Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
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Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife.
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In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
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I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
