H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes
Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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But I think we need the international market.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.
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If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
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What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
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The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.
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Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
