The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
#quotes #laurel-clark #parents #influence #thankfulness
As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
#quotes #robert-jarvik #medicine
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
#quotes #james-thurber #truth #human
He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #wise
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
#quotes #george-mcgovern #united-states
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
#quotes #john-bunyan #christianity
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
#quotes #lionel-hampton #music
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
#quotes #rick-derringer #writing #family #helping
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
#quotes #john-lewis #black #elections #ohio
The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
#quotes #mother-teresa
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
#quotes #barbara-kingsolver #fortune
We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
#quotes #john-w-snow #economy
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
#quotes #winston-churchill #government #democracy #stupidity
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #friendship
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #marriage #wife
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #medicine #doctors
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
#quotes #john-stamos #life #family #childhood
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
#quotes #george-bernard-shaw #pessimism
The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
#quotes #robert-kiyosaki #success #failure
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
#quotes #ursula-k-le-guin #reading #novels
Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #money
For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
#quotes #william-blake #human #love
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
#quotes #bernard-of-clairvaux #god
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