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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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.
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I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
