Eugene J. Martin Quotes
One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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Leave off the 'financially'.Let the financial be the result of honest, sincere desire to be and live so that others may know the way also. Good gives the increase. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )
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On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
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It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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It is only in sleep that true imagination ever stirs within us. Awake, we never imagine anything; we merely alter, vary, or transpose. We give another twist to the kaleidoscope of the things we see around us, and obtain another pattern; but not one of us has ever added one tiniest piece of new glass to the toy.
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If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.
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One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.
