Zelig Pliskin Quotes
When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
Quotes to Explore
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
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Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
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Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.
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Vergeef me, ik heb niet voor niets de naam een bundeltje tegenspraak te zijn!
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'There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison.'
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
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I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah!
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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As hard as the nails on a crucifix.
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I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping - carrots and celery and cabbage - and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
