Finis Mitchell Quotes
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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We all have to be responsible for ourselves. I accept the concept that respect for yourself must be the foundation of respect for others. It is only if you respect yourself as a human being and you have faith in your ability to achieve what should be achieved that you will be able to help others.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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In the wilderness man learns to have faith in his Creator.
