Insightful Quotes - Page 23

• There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Travel, Home

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• In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Travel, Differences

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• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• There are organizations like Southern Poverty Law Center, there are some private investigators that work for the Republican Establishment, that actually use technology to hack into your phone. ... Secure your phone. Black Phone by the makers of Silent Circle is probably the most secure phone out there.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Technology, Phones

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• Where there is no vision a people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Innovation, Vision

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• We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Prayer, Government

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• When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into a group to create chaos and dissension ... There were two we identified down there that were trying to foment violence on either side, trying to really create a confrontation. Any time this stuff happens there's going to be agent provocateurs come in.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Two, People

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• Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Growing Up, Thinking, Genius

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• We need to call what is happening out of Washington, D.C., what it is: Bureaucratic terrorism: If you want a list of stories, I could go through a bunch of them, and I could highlight a few: One of them was the IRS audit of my good friend Phil Hart, he's sitting in the audience today. That was bureaucratic terrorism.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Good Friend, Insane

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• Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Father, Government

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• A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

  Nadia Abu El Haj

  Goal, Creative, Different

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• No moral system can rest solely on authority.

  A.J. Ayer

  Morality, Authority, Moral

  Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction

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• Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Rights, Issues

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• Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Liberty, Negative

  "Glenn Beck: Obama TOLD us this was coming". "Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.glennbeck.com. 2001.

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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• Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Children, Becoming

  "Gently And Firmly". Book by C.P. Varkey, p. 87, 2010.

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• Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery, along with a heartfelt affection for those who keep alight the flame of our musical heritage.

  Lenny Kaye

  Passion, Journey, Discovery

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• When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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• The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Thinking, Climate

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

  Thomas Wilson

  Light, Darkness, Care

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• From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Symphony, Triumph, Delight

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• It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

  James Westphal

  Ideas, Magic, Pops

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• I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

  Ephraim Katzir

  Honesty, Rights, Race

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• Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Protected, Beaten

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• Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

  Oliver Stone

  Divorce, Thinking, Lines

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