It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Paul Nurse
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It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy.
Maureen Murphy
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I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
Laurel Lea
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Everyone knows Aamir to be a perfectionist. But only those who have worked with him can vouch for his integrity. I had the privilege of doing one of my most important films, 'Mangal Pandey: The Rising' with Aamir.
Amisha Patel
IntegrityDoingImportantPrivilege
It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.
Helen Garner
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
Simon Wiesenthal
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The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
Daniel Levitin
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I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
Roger Bannister
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
Warren Farrell
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The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.
Rumaan Alam
IgnoreEnoughConversationPrivilege
Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people.
Tarana Burke
ServicePeopleYouBadPrivilege
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Lucy Larcom
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
Quentin Bryce
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti
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I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.
N. K. Jemisin
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Diogenes
MenWantPrivilegeNothingLittle
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
Jack Lew
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We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.
Dede Gardner
WorldHandsPrivilegeNeedTellOur
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
Fidel Castro
SocietyPrivilegeAssumeUsRole
To even be a working entertainer in Hollywood is such a rare privilege.
Cole Sprouse
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Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn't about banking the unbanked. It's about re-imagining what consumer retail banking can be.
Dan Schulman
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Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
Brian O'Driscoll
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Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
Ava DuVernay
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato
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