Morgan Freeman Quotes
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
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The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
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Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
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It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
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But silence is where victims dwell.
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The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
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Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.
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On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.
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People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.
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The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.
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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
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Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.
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We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.
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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
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Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called "softskins" whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship Soren had hired to go north to find Rose, must have spread the story, because for many years afterward, there were tales of a race of trolls living on top of the world. Only Rose and her white bear know the whole truth of it.
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How do we make the Lord's ways our ways? I believe we begin by learning of Him and praying for understanding.
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As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.
