Genuine Quotes - Page 15

• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Anniversary, Book

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• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Government, Order

  Ralph Nader (2007). “Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender”, p.332, Macmillan

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• I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Genuine Love, Privilege, Affair

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Two, Revelations

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• I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Believe, Russia

  "Putin Q&A: Full Transcript". Time Interview, content.time.com. December, 2007.

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• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Compassion, Priests, Feels

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• I do want love. Genuine love.

  Jill Scott

  Genuine Love, Want

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• Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

  Jill Scott

  Genuine Love, Race, People

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• But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

  Roger Sessions

  Communication, Two, Profound

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press

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• To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

  Ariel Sharon

  Fate, Israel, Over You

  "The leaders' statements". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2005.

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• You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

  Charlie Sheen

  Mcdonalds, Vaccines, Judging

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• The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

  Sargent Shriver

  Men, Justice, Charity

  "The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation" by Edward Shorter, (p. 66), 2000.

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• The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

  Georg Simmel

  Individuality, Exhausted, Individualism

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

  Simon Sinek

  Years, Answers, Clue

  "Measure Success: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Self, Roots

  'Self-Help' (1859)

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• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

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• This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Spiritual, School, Vision

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• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Book, Reading

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

  Prince William

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Two, Democracy, Together

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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Thinking, Evil, Conscious

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Mao Zedong

  Change, Military, Learning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

  Mao Zedong

  Sex, Equality, Transformation

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.297, China Books

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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Phones, Cliche

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Hype, People

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