Stephen Samuel Wise Quotes
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
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Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
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Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
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I'm just a fun guy.
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Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.
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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
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You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
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Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
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I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.
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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
