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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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
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Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.
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There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?"
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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.
