Miep Gies Quotes
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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We have got to end the Democratic Party. Its history is so interwoven with starting, keeping, trying to push slavery on beyond anything that it should have been through.
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Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.
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Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
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We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
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I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.
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I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.
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I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
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There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.
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When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde
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Bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
