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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing.
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life — unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours — the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking', because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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