William Hazlitt Quotes
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
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Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
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Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and how much they like me.I'll give 'em that 'C'mon you don't mean that' routine, but in my heart I know where they're coming from. If I had grown up in the '70's and was into rock n' roll, I know the kind of impact Aerosmith would have had on me. I know the kind of impact that Elvis and Jagger had on me, and while I'm not comparing myself to those guys, I can relate.
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Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.
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Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
