Richard Cobden Quotes

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

Recitation: by Male by Female

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EducationFreedomPeaceProgress

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

John Grogan

LoveLoyaltyOptimismDevotionDogs

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

John Dickerson

ChildrenWallsBaseballParents

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Steve Carell

WifeSayingTalkingNowNothingWhy

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

Mohamed ElBaradei

PeopleDemocracyLongDreamHearts

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

Jared Kushner

RealityMediaYouLoseUnderstand

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LifeOpportunityLearnThanksgiving

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu

HistoryElephantAppreciateInjustice

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

Demetri Martin

BirdChildDoorBeeGlassSame

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Christopher Stanley

HumilityThinkPersonBeingI Think

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Clifford Geertz

PeopleSociologyNervousKeepAsking

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

Ringo Starr

LoveSaidBandOverBeingAgain

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

Noah Hawley

StarsFeetFaceActingKnowHigh

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