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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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
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I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
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As a child who lived in a lot of places, one of the hardest things for me was to join a new community. It was hardest at the kibbutz, but that was also one of the most impressive communities.
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I can now check Oregon off the 'marathon in every state list.'
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I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
