Gene Sharp Quotes
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
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We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
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I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
