Benjamin Butler Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica.
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
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Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
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We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
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Whenever I get negative comments on Twitter, it's always from girls - often ones who are trying to make it in the media. I don't understand why we can't put that energy into uniting and supporting each other instead.
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Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
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I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
