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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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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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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Learning is a process not an event.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.
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One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
