Abet Quotes

• At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

  Gordon Parks

  Fighting, Might, Firsts

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• No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Bihar, Terrorism, Partnership

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Forgiveness, God, Jobs

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• We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Beach, Our Generation

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• We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

  Annie Dillard

  Healing, Creation, Empty Houses

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• Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Life, Outlaw

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Play, House

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• The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

  Colin Powell

  Government, Roots, Poverty

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Superstitions, Too Much

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.298, Ballantine Books

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• I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

  Cee Lo Green

  Voice, Judging, People

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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• Love can do all but raise the Dead.

  Emily Dickinson

  Raises, Can Do

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.826, Harvard University Press

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• We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

  Annie Dillard

  People, Consciousness, Praise

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• I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

  Garth Greenwell

  Ambition, Thinking, Self

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• He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

  Patrick deWitt

  Fighting, Guilt

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.40, Granta Books

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• To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Views, Government, Perfect

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• The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

  Tom Peters

  Availability, Information, Improvement

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• Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

  Bill Keller

  May, Enough, Malpractice

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• Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tired, Sleep, Love Is

  Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes (2011). “Emily Dickinson”, p.52, Faber & Faber

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• Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.

  Stanley Kauffmann

  Mean, Way, Fiction

  Stanley Kauffmann (2001). “Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment”, Performing Arts Journal Books

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• To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Animal, Pet

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• In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts.

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Past, Israel

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