Elihu Burritt Quotes
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
Elihu Burritt
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
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Life doesn't stop with football.
Barry Sanders
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
Barry Mann
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
Jack O'Connell
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
Vernon Wells
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
Zach Braff
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When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
Axl Rose
Guns N' Roses
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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
Nan Goldin
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Martha Gellhorn
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Emile Zola
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
B. F. Skinner
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Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.
Jeff Goldblum
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
Aristotle
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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
Colin S. Smith
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I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.
Cathy Freeman
