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The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
Source: Cosmos (1980) -
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.
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The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
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The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.
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