Vernon Howard Quotes
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
Vernon Howard
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
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Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans the perks and power of majority control for the first time in 40 years. Thus did the politics of total resistance become their path of least resistance.
Jacob Weisberg
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All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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For when every judgement is the act of hym that judgeth, it behoveth that every man performe hys worke and purpose, not by any forayne or straunge power or facultie, but by his owne proper power, and strength.
Boethius
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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.
Studs Terkel
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
Vernon Howard