Georgia Harkness Quotes
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
Quotes to Explore
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I will run against anybody.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.
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I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
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I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
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Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.
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The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.
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Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
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Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
