Mike Gravel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Something is monitoring the planet. And they are monitoring it very cautiously.
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I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana
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We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.
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The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
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I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana
-- Mike Gravel
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.
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You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
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The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Something is monitoring the planet. And they are monitoring it very cautiously.
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To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.
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