Kahlil Gibran Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx -
You either get better, or you don't progress.
Lance Reddick -
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln -
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
Major Owens -
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
Jack Hanna -
A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
Gavin Newsom -
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
Beatrice Wood -
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow
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The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
Sam Brownback -
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Ed Miliband -
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides -
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite -
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.
Erik Brynjolfsson -
I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
Imelda May -
If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
Pat Barker -
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran