Henry Steele Commager Quotes

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

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We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

John Key

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On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

John Knoll

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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Steve Buyer

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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Travis Barker

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I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.

Tom Ford

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Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

Ronald Graham

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I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

Miriam Shor

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Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Janos Kadar

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I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

Jose Mourinho

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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

Pope Francis

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