Ellis Arnall Quotes
We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
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the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
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We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.
