J. M. Roberts Quotes
Given the importance of the election and the fact that the present margin is approximately 300 votes in the state, I believe the people of Palm Beach County have entrusted us with the power to voice their right to participate in their government.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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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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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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You have to believe in your bosses, especially in this day and age where there is so much out there that can be posted without checks and balances.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
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Given the importance of the election and the fact that the present margin is approximately 300 votes in the state, I believe the people of Palm Beach County have entrusted us with the power to voice their right to participate in their government.
