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• Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.

  Chris Matthews

  Compassion, Consistency, Way

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Views, Years

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1968). “Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s”, New American Library of Canada

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• I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

  Harry S. Truman

  Christian, Thinking, Charity

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Today, Passed Away

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• I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

  Randall Robinson

  Thinking, Want, Christ

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica - that's slightly more than the total figure for New York - and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?

  Robert Fisk

  New York, Trying, Trials

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Speech, Our Society

  "Chomsky on McCutcheon: ‘Let’s Forget Any Pretense of Being a Democratic Society’" by Abel Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2014.

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• China is now urging citizens to eat less meat. Factory farming comes with immense costs to a society, and Chinese leaders are starting to recognize its implications for water use, the efficient use of grains and other food resources, and human health concerns.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Water, Leader, Chinese

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• Basically we learned not ever to do a show like that [ Gigi Does It] again. That took me to a limit that I didn't know I had. First off, I show-ran the show and was the head writer. I had never done anything like that before. It was an immense responsibility.

  David Krumholtz

  Responsibility, Doe, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Then there is another area of activity - economic interaction between Russia and the United States. Right now, for example, it has already been made public that we signed a large deal to privatise one of our biggest oil and gas companies, Rosneft. We know for sure that US companies, as well as Japanese ones, by the way, are keenly interested in cooperation in Russia's oil and gas sector, in joint work. This has immense significance for world energy markets and will directly affect the whole world economy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Oil, Russia, World

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going on in Vietnam. It seemed to a lot of us like a catastrophe from the very beginning, inflicting immense and needless suffering on not only the American soldiers but on a lot of innocent peasants who were caught in a Cold War proxy battle - two million Vietnamese died during those years, and you woke up every morning knowing that that was going on.

  Robert Hass

  Morning, War, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Diversity, Matter, Abundance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

  Laura Huxley

  Teacher, Yoga, Discipline

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to what extent an immense territory, a whole continent, had effectively been reorganized into one city, and just like the cities of old. From that moment on, I became more interested in urban matters, in logistics, in the organisation of transport, in maintenance and supplies.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Europe, Cities

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

  Paul Virilio

  Country, Russia, Looks

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Worry, Meat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

  Mary Robinson

  Giving, Capacity, I Can

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who authorized a minority to protect an immense majority? It is not only political, cultural and economic marginalization, it is an attempt against the dignity of the majority of the population.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Country, Political, Majority

  Source: www.indians.org

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• About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.

  Michelle Alexander

  Years, Challenges, Survival

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that.

  Dalai Lama

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Healthy, Survival

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Sky, Hard Life

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

  Jerry Garcia

  Communication, Mean, Reality

  Source: medium.com

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• I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Drawing, Immense Love

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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