Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
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Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
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I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
