Balian of Ibelin Quotes
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning-and we will not be free again until we get it back.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
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Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
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A faultless person is one who withdraws from affairs. This must be done with strength.
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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
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I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
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Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
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A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.
