Eva Mozes Kor Quotes
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information.
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I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
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I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
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I often say to my assistants, 'Never trust anybody,' but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.
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I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.
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Kids are anarchy writ large.
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There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
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The only failures are those who fail to try.
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Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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Forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for the victim.
