Abigail Adams Quotes
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
