Miep Gies Quotes
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.
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I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic, and I'm not a comic person - it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at.
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My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
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There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!
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We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a distraction from primary goals.
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It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they're UFC fighters, that's all. They're pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they're forgotten. When's the last time you heard Josh Neer's name? You haven't. When's the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven't. They're no ones anymore.
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Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
