Point Quotes
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Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.
Daniel Berrigan
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian
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At this point in time, I don't know if I would change my mind or not, ... I'd certainly consider it. But when I look at the reasons we came up with it in the first place, I'm not sure I would.
John Whiting
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
Olivier Theyskens
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
Marianne Williamson
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An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.
William Bradford Shockley Jr.
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You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
Jimmy Webb
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I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.
Corey Haim
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It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
Abraham Lincoln
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At a time when the Nation was at its lowest point, this generation dropped their individual pursuits to form the most potent military and powerful civilian engine the world has ever known. American, fighting and working together, as well as with our allies around the world, overcame the tremendous dangers of that time. We freed the world from the shackle of totalitarianism and made freedom ring.
Lane Evans
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What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.
Oprah Winfrey
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My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.
Rachel Caine
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In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.
Gary Gach
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I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.
Len Wein
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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
Ira Glass
