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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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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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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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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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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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
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Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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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.
