Lester B. Pearson Quotes
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.
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As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
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They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
