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• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Chinese
  • Alive
  • Tibetans

• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movies
  • About
  • Electrical

• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Fear

• People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Thought

• The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Money
  • Together
  • Relationship

• I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Study

• There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Children

• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Rich
  • Eggs

• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Dear
  • Plato

• In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Democracy
  • Orators
  • Demagogs

• Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Running
  • Alcohol

• Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Immoral
  • Impractical

• The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Real
  • Crazy

• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Money
  • Why

• I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Learned
  • Mistaken

• I'm challenging the powers that be.

  

  Richard Ojeda
  • Challenging
  • Powers