Gerda Weissmann Klein Quotes
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.
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I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
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Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
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Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.
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I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
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American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.
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And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.
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At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
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Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.
