Nathanael Emmons Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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I love anything to do with history.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.
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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
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The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
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All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.
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The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries-they still flourish.
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
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Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.
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Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
