M. Scott Peck Quotes
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I was born free.
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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.
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Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
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It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, 'If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.' 'I know. An overwhelming passion for it.' 'No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.'
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I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
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Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.
