Charles de Foucauld Quotes
It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
Quotes to Explore
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.
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Consider fully, act decisively.
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Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
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When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.
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Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.
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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
