Barack Obama Quotes, People Quotes, Weapons Quotes

We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition.

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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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The English are the people of consummate cant.

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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

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I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

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Tags : Alan Sillitoe Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes

I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Any sign that says we're going to leave Iraq before the job is done simply emboldens terrorists and creates a certain amount of doubt for people, so they won't take the risk necessary to help a civil society evolve in the country.

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Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Progressive Taxation Quotes , People Quotes

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Hands Quotes , People Quotes

Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Quiet Voice Quotes , People Quotes

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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