M. Scott Peck Quotes
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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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 was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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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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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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I can always go back to education.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
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Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.
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I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.
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The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
