Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
The wealth of America isn’t an inventory of goods; it’s an organic, living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties, moral commitments, visions, and people. To slice it up like an apple pie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to share Stephen Hawking’s intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surely kill him.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Loved people are loving people.
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A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
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The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
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I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who create wealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandate to appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command. I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrol methods for nearly a century because they said they knew better. It is now obvious that they didn’t.
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The wealth of America isn’t an inventory of goods; it’s an organic, living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties, moral commitments, visions, and people. To slice it up like an apple pie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to share Stephen Hawking’s intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surely kill him.
