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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I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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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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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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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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It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.
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But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"
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Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
