Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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My life was pretty rough.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
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I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
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We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.
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With proper governance, life will improve for all.
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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
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I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.
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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
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I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
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I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!
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Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
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The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
