William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Women are the heads of most households in our state and make the most financial decisions for their families.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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I'm only a human being.
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If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
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Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
