Daryl Davis Quotes
Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
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We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
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This is George Bush’s accountability moment.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
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When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.
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It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.
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When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.
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I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.
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Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
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When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it is a good investment, be skeptical and stay open to the option of running as far as you can in the opposite direction. We have all seen the biggest names on Wall Street along with the largest sovereign wealth funds on the planet make the dumbest investments ever made. Do your due diligence; ask the right questions, and most important, check out the character of the people involved unless you want to end up being prey to another master of the universe à la Bernie Madoff.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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Man does not live by destruction.
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Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.
