Lester B. Pearson Quotes
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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I get depressed at airports.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.
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Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
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Investigation is never complete.
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The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
