Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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I love candy!
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
