M. Scott Peck Quotes
Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.
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Men fall in love through their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears, through words.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.
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Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.
