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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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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I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
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It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.
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My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.
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What does it look like to build a city, state, or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction? To ask this question is the first act of an abolitionist.
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I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States.
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I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.
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Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
