David Ruggles Quotes
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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I don't even like parties.
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.
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You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
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I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
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It is the success which makes great men.
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Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
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Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.