Michael O'Brien Quotes
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
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We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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It took a couple of hours to index the site. I knew it would help. When people look for products, especially nowadays, they go right to search.
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Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.
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So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
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I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.
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Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
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Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
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Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge.
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Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
