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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

• In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Prove
  • Policy

• 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

• Forgiving ourselves for all the woulda-shoulda-couldas in life, and sometimes forgiving others for actions that we feel undercut or undermine our good, can be very challenging. But forgiveness of the past and mistakes, our own mistakes as well as the mistakes of others, is imperative if we are to dwell fully in the present and experience the miracles that are only available to the forgiving and loving mind.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine – If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him – Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse – It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Heart
  • Fool
  • Horse

• The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Vulgarity
  • Resembles

• I'm challenging the powers that be.

  

  Richard Ojeda
  • Powers
  • Challenging