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 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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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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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 think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.
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I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
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why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
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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.
