William Booth Quotes
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.
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That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
