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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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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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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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.
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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.
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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.
