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Abbe Pierre Quotes

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

Abbe Pierre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: french
Birth: August 5, 1912 - January 22, 2007

Topics

Technology Negative Humanity True

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Andrew Vachss

Change Democracy Journalism Force

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

Andre Aciman

Past Me Writing Forget Write Return

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Jeff Ross

Life Pain Life Is Short Short Laugh

When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

Robert Fisk

Me Detail Forest Numbers Special

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Mike Wallace

Job Better Journalism Seriously Than

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Louise Erdrich

Death Talking Traveled Discouraged

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Liz Phair

Best Matter Profanity Songs How

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Life Perfection Worth Striving Even

I love the attention. I love how I am so loved by the people, especially the girls.

Armaan Malik

Love I Am People Loved Attention Am

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

Thomas Brooks

Truth Truth Is Will Mighty Prevail

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

Norman Wisdom

World You Over Years Audience Going

All the best to SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, and, yes, the Progress teams, who are all working on their own solutions to open the frontier along with Boeing and the rest of the fliers trying to fly, all of whom I know personally share the dream. This isn't their fault; they just want to make things fly.

Rick Tumlinson

Best Progress Fly Rest Trying Dream