Guy Burgess famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.
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The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
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The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.
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One of the reasons we're so fascinated by the Internet, is that it has the ability to eliminate what we call information friction.
-- Guy Burgess
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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In pain is a new time born.
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.
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On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker
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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
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When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
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