Craig Detweiler Quotes
When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.
Craig Detweiler
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
Caitlin Moran
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
Pat Morita
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
Gary Johnson
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
Sam Altman
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J. R. Moehringer
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
Nathaniel Branden
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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
Edmund Burke
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Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.
Nawal El Saadawi
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As president, I will take steps to ban the box, so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process.
Hillary Clinton
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Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.
Leo Tolstoy
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David Hare
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
Reeve Carney
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice in it as He rejoices in it Himself and who, participating in His being, participate at the same time in His beatitude. It is not therefore for Himself, but for us, that God seeks His glory; it is not to gain it, for He posses it already, nor to increase it, for already it is perfect, but to communicate it to us.
Etienne Gilson
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When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.
Craig Detweiler
