M. Scott Peck Quotes
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson - once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.
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Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
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I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
