William Ellery Channing Quotes
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I love being in my 40s.
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How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.
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'It’s all PR,' said Hutchins. 'If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.'
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I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
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I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.
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An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
