Akira Mori Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
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Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Our knowing - even of the most unexceptional kind - is always too big, too rich, too an cient, and too connected for us to be the source of it individually. At the same time, our knowing - even of the most elevated kind - is too en gaged, too precise, too tailored, too active, and too experiential for it to be just of a generic size. The experience of knowing is no less unique, no less creative, and no less extraordinary for being one of participa tion. As a matter of fact, on the face of it, it would probably not amount to much otherwise.
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
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If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
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A boat can't have two captains.
