William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
William Sloane Coffin
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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.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Daniel Boulud
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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.
Usain Bolt
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon
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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.
Gabby Douglas
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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.
Manolo Blahnik
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
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For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.
William M. Daley
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The end-Permian extinction also seems to have been triggered by a change in the climate. But in this case, the change went in the opposite direction. Right at the time of extinction, 252 million years ago, there was a massive release of carbon into the air—so massive that geologists have a hard time even imagining where all the carbon could have come from. Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium. The water became acidified, and the amount of dissolved oxygen dropped so low that many organisms probably, in effect, suffocated.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W. H. Auden
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The danger is in using psychedelic drugs, just to put it out there, is madness.
Terence McKenna
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
William Sloane Coffin
