Aristotle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
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I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children.
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You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.
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Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.
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Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
