Benjamin B. Ferencz Quotes
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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It was disappointing, as if a wish she didn’t know she’d made hadn’t come true.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.
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I knew my body could take the battle of everyday training and take the battle of falls and bending in ways that bodies really shouldn't bend.
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90? 110? You know. It's a Ferrari, baby - you don't do 50 in a Ferrari.
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There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.
