Uesugi Kenshin Quotes
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
Uesugi Kenshin
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Patrick Lencioni
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Nastia Liukin
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. Tillman
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine Albright
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
Federica Mogherini
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
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Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
Joel Siegel
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... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.
Nance O'Neil
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I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.
Oprah Winfrey
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
Donald Miller
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
Ferdinand Marcos
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Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
Uesugi Kenshin
