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"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." »William Torrey Harris
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"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." »Marian Anderson
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"A candour affected is a dagger concealed." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended." »Plato
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"I am not a role model." »Mike Tyson
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The mind cannot long act the role of the heart." »La Rochefoucauld
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion." »Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04
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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?" »Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here"
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"People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place." »Irving Kristol
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"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them." »Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
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"I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures." »Basil W. Maturin
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"Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play." »Eric Hoffer
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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"Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own." »Dick Gregory
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." »J Danforth Quayle
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"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." »A. J. Liebling
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide." »Nathan M. Pusey
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"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process." »Aldous Huxley
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"A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means." »Eugene E. Brussell
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"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future." »Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman." »Sandra Cisneros
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"Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine." »"Malcom X" ( 1964), The Atobiograghy of Malcom X
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