B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes
To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.
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It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.
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If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.
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To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
