Christiana Figueres Quotes
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.
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Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
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Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
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We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.
