Ben Bova Quotes
Red tape has killed more people than bullets.
Ben Bova
Quotes to Explore
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.
Marianne Williamson
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The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.
Jasper Fforde
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The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.
Mel Odom
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
Mike Tyson
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There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
Albert Einstein
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's a good idea for future Presidents Cups to have a reserve ready to play. The people want to see the match played as scheduled.
Gary Player
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I listened, I understood and I didn’t understand. Long ago she had threatened Marcello with the shoemaker’s knife simply because he had dared to grab my wrist and break the bracelet. From that point on, I was sure that if Marcello had just brushed against her she would have killed him. But toward Stefano, now, she showed no explicit aggression. Of course, the explanation was simple: we had seen our fathers beat our mothers from childhood. We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us.
Elena Ferrante
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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being
Roy Keane
