William Golding Quotes
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
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The status quo sucks.
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I like anything that's edible.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
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Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to "define" the goal carefully upfront, you've addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process.
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In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
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Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
