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Desmond Tutu

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FRANZ KAFKA It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign o...
NICOLAS SOBCZAK If I were a magician who could make things possible, I'd have lemonade always tasting as it did on t...
SAšA STANIšIć How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
GERHARD KOCHER Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You don't have that. How would the situation be any different if Mr. Giordano were a bank president?
DENNIS JACOBS How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions we...
STEPHENIE MEYER If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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ANONYMOUS A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I alwa...
STEPHEN WRIGHT If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
WILFRID LAURIER How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
GIOACCHINO ANTONIO ROSSINI If you were told we are in hell and we all died already and we're on our second life. Would you beli...
JODEL AREVALO We were all very relaxed -- that's how I knew it would be a fast race.
JODIE HENRY We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
DESMOND TUTU If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happie...
PETER MCWILLIAMS And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Our goal is to be competitive. If you can hang with them, you can be competitive. All of them are wi...
CORRIE ADAMS You would realize how good you had it, if God allowed you to see how many people were trying to take...
TROY GATHERS Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were wh...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If we were picking a journalism all-star team, it would certainly be a different lineup. Or a bigger...
HOWARD WEAVER If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really ab...
EVAN PETERS To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for idea...
H. L. MENCKEN To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for idea...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It's a different team now with all the veterans. Going into training camp, I knew exhibition games w...
GREGORY CAMPBELL If you could only know and see and feel, all of a sudden, that 'the time is short,' how it would bre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could...
NELLIE BLY A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever rec...
ERNST HAAS How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
JEAN PLAIDY If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill
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SUSAN COLLINS Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be i...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you would have told me we'd finish fourth... I don't think we would have actually believed it. I ...
IAN KAWAS It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would hav...
JENNIFER NIVEN You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have ...
JENNIFER NIVEN If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
STEVEN WRIGHT If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
STEPHEN WRIGHT If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
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PHILIP ROTH If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
GEORGE HERBERT If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come...
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CHRIS KLEIN if my love were an ocean ,
There would be no more land.
If my love were a desert ,
Yo...
JAY ASHER If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ho...
THOMAS HARDY If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ...
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JOE MESI Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know how any competitor could live with himself after cheating like that. How could you look...
CHARLIE YOUNGERS If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like...
RACHEL HUNTER If we were all sposed to be perfect, then we would all be the exactly same.
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ARTHUR HILLER If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
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DAVID BRINKLEY If you were to put all these kinds of music into an audio blender, the resulting soup would be the C...
BRAD MANOSEVITZ All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how...
SARAH ZETTEL If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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JOHN YANG How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really despera...
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BILL JAMES If the beard were all, goats could preach
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LIZ SHIMEK If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
VICTOR GARBER If all men were just, there would be no need of valor
AGESILAUS If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?
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DESMOND TUTU Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
DESMOND TUTU I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
DESMOND TUTU Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
DESMOND TUTU But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
DESMOND TUTU If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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DESMOND TUTU We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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DESMOND TUTU Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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DESMOND TUTU Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it.
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DESMOND TUTU We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
DESMOND TUTU Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

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DESMOND TUTU Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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DESMOND TUTU Hate has no place in the house of God.
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BISHOP DESMOND TUTU I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
BISHOP DESMOND TUTU A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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DALAI LAMA XIV, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS So irrespective of our beliefs, we are all the same human beings. We all want a happy life.
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DALAI LAMA XIV, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
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MATTHEW DESMOND When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
PHOENIX DESMOND A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ou...
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DESMOND MORRIS Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
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MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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MATTHEW DESMOND The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impressi...
MATTHEW DESMOND It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
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MATTHEW DESMOND When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
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MATTHEW DESMOND Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain ...
MATTHEW DESMOND You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
MATTHEW DESMOND Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental we...
MATTHEW DESMOND You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this th...
MATTHEW DESMOND Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
MATTHEW DESMOND An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
MATTHEW DESMOND Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the aver...
MATTHEW DESMOND No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and p...
DESMOND MORRIS Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction ...
MATTHEW DESMOND Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
MATTHEW DESMOND I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
DESMOND MORRIS Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
MATTHEW DESMOND Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship sta...
MATTHEW DESMOND The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Ex...
RICHARD DESMOND African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
MATTHEW DESMOND Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrificati...
MATTHEW DESMOND Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whethe...
MATTHEW DESMOND There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception i...
DESMOND MORRIS Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. Th...
MATTHEW DESMOND You never know how crazy a person is...until they tell you their nightmares.
EMILY DESMOND When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. I...
MATTHEW DESMOND These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure or...
MATTHEW DESMOND I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that...
MATTHEW DESMOND it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, extended, straightened, waved, put up, let d...
DESMOND MORRIS No matter how old we become, we can still call them "Holy Mother" and "Father" and put a child-like ...
DESMOND MORRIS I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape
DESMOND MORRIS As potential areas for body decoration the buttocks provide little scope. They are too private for d...
DESMOND MORRIS CNS just fixes computers. We try to do the best of our ability to fix student computers.
DESMOND MORRIS What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
DESMOND LLEWELYN I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in the...
MATTHEW DESMOND If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely...
DESMOND BAGLEY Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
MATTHEW DESMOND Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're ...
MATTHEW DESMOND Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of the...
MATTHEW DESMOND When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much ...
MATTHEW DESMOND If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dy...
MATTHEW DESMOND Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a bus...
MATTHEW DESMOND The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Amon...
MATTHEW DESMOND You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potenti...
MATTHEW DESMOND Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provo...
MATTHEW DESMOND Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spen...
MATTHEW DESMOND Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions a...
MATTHEW DESMOND If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a la...
MATTHEW DESMOND I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's...
MATTHEW DESMOND Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either ...
MATTHEW DESMOND It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I ...
RICHARD DESMOND I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but...
DESMOND DEKKER When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec...
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