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  • To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
  • Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
  • Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
  • Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
  • Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
  • That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
  • It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
  • Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
  • When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
  • The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Paine What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Harry S. Truman It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Mark Twain A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Warren Bennis Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • Joseph Addison Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Pablo Casals I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Gilbert Adair The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • William Cowper Variety is the very spice of live, I that gives it all its flavour.
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    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Puzant Kevork Thomajan A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
    Puzant Kevork Thomajan
     
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  • Richard Whately A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man's height gives him a different outlook on his environment and so changes his character.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ramsey Clark A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
    Ramsey Clark
    American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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