Finis Mitchell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.
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I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.
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You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
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In the wilderness man learns to have faith in his Creator.
