Rachel Corrie Quotes
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
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People make mistakes, and bad things happen.
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People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.
