Bobbi Gibb Quotes
I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.
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Reprisals are but a sad resource.
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I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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I think it's that everyday training that is what's really important.
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I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.
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My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it.
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Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.
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If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men -- that is going to throw all the rest of the prejudices and all the misconceptions and all of the so-called reasons for keeping women down that have existed for the past how many centuries? Centuries of this stuff! And so I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun! I'm going to turn the whole thing on its head.'
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I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.