William Rainey Harper Quotes
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.
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For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
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We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
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War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
