Haim Ginott Quotes
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Quotes to Explore
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's easier to believe that my discomfort comes from some fact that is being hidden from me.
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Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
