Rehabilitation Quotes - Page 5

• It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

  Arthur Machen

  Succeed, Failing, Attempting

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.95, Delphi Classics

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• I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Said, Nations

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• I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Mistake, People, Celebration

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• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Winning, Phrases, Will To Succeed

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• Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

  Francis Maude

  Party, Great Day, Succeed

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• Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Teacher, Bullets, Silver

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• The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Insanity, Would Be, Mental Health

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• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  Elihu Root

  Justice, Discussion, Diplomatic

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

  Ali Khamenei

  People, Saws, Election

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• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov

  Propaganda, Used, Type

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• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, America, Ambivalent

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

  Charles Wagner

  Evil, Intellectual, Soil

  Charles Wagner (1903). “Youth”

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• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

  Mac Thornberry

  July, Calendars, Fourth

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• One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

  Peter Hobson

  Humor, Journey, Destiny

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Ability To Communicate, Great Things

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• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Pages, Embedded, Conviction

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• The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Fire, Drug, Cost

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• We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Military, School

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• A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

  Raymond Queneau

  Iliad, Creation, Concern

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• Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Character, Men, Needs

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• I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.

  Herbert Hoover

  Appreciation, Men, Expression

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

  Grover Cleveland

  Peace, United States, Nations

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.

  James Fox

  Meaningful, New York, Believe

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