M. Scott Peck Quotes
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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I can always go back to education.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
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I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
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My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?
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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
