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We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

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• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Green
  • Loved
  • Teamwork

• Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Business
  • Bad

• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Book
  • Year
  • Research

• People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Small

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Soul

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

  

  Potter Stewart
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Lawyer

• This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

  

  Emanuel Azenberg
  • Cold

• When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

  

  Samuel Ullman
  • Older
  • Cynicism
  • Pessimism

• Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Wonderful
  • Listen
  • Listener

• Doing is the evolution of saying.

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Evolution
  • Saying

• I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Person
  • Performance
  • Evolution

• We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

  

  African Spir
  • Development
  • Evolution
  • Improvement