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inspirational motivational success
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat. Charlie Chaplin
inspirational mean imagination
Imagination means nothing without doing.
inspirational character men
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
inspirational happiness pain
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
inspirational relationship bullying
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
inspirational patient disability
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. Charles W. Pickering
inspirational life speech
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. Charles Dudley Warner
inspirational funny thinking
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. Charles de Gaulle
inspirational success determination
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
mean meanness nations
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. Charles Sumner
mean talking spite
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
mean
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. Charles de Lint
mean thinking people
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
mean mind austin
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.
mean people competition
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
direct-action acting ifs
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. David Graeber
direct-action people important
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. Arthur Scargill
direct-action healthy invigorating
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action Henry Miller
direct-action issues creative
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth. Martin Luther King, Jr.
direct-action alive surface
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
direct-action justice long
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
direct-action cryptography violent
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. Julian Assange
direct-action people peaceful
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. Caroline Lucas
direct-action voting democracy
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. Howard Zinn