Michael Ryan Quotes
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I have a hyper personality.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
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The main objects of the Population Congress would be ... (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
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The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
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I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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I usually have three fried eggs every morning. It always has to be three: two is just not enough, and three won't put me over edge.
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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The emergency funding measure cannot be short-sighted -- it cannot simply replace bullets for bullets and bombs for bombs spent in Kosovo.
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I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
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Perfection is the enemy of the good when it comes to emergency management.
