Rory Stewart Quotes

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Rory Stewart

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I pray every day. In the mornings and, before I go to bed. I think it's important to pray not just when things are going bad. When things are going bad, it's easy to pray and ask God to help you out, but it's also important to pray when things are going well and show your appreciation.

Jermain Defoe

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Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

Jerome Charyn

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Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

Michael Gerber

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Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

Anand Giridharadas

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I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak.

Silvia Colloca

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As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

Shiri Appleby

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When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.

Shirley Temple

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Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.

Roger B. Taney

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This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

Miley Cyrus

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I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

Coco Martin

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The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Shaun Cassidy

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