Lucretia Mott Quotes
Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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I'm never satisfied.
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Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
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Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
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I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.
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American policy makers must understand that the activists and young people who started Yemen’s peaceful revolution deeply respect the United States and Western civilization...We call on American officials to engage with the leaders of Yemen’s democracy movement and abandon their misplaced investment in the old regime’s security apparatus
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
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Dig just a little bit deeper. Work just a little bit harder. And don't get weary! Remember this is personal! Let's finish what we started, and re-elect President Barack Obama!
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To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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Racism springs from ignorance.
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The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
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Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
