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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
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What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
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What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.
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What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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