Adopted Quotes - Page 16

• All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

  James K. Polk

  Rights, Citizens, Birth

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• Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

  Antwone Fisher

  Children, Teenage, Boys

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• I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

  George III

  Country, Fall, Self

  1780 Letter to Lord North, 7 Mar.

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• When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Book, Imagination

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Records, Resistance, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.334, Grove Press

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• Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

  Albert Bandura

  Dysfunction, Self, Problem

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• With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.

  Evo Morales

  Religious, Catholic, Belief

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Support, Understanding, Opinion

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.56

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• The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.

  Kenneth Clark

  Character, White, Drawing

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

  Seth

  Self, Ideas, Perception

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• An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

  Richard Cecil

  Running, Lying, Men

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.177

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• Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

  Josephine Decker

  Generosity, Thanks, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

  Arnold Palmer

  Years, Waiting, Balls

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• Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.

  Judi Dench

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

  Dalai Lama

  Generations, New Inventions, Seven

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Fighting, Violence

  Speech as the official date for Indian independence approached, June 16, 1947.

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• And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

  Maya Angelou

  Taken, Love Life, Kids

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• Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Mean, Ideas, Doe

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• Life is not for the faint of heart.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Adoption, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

  Morris Kline

  Practice, Should Have, Paper

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• Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

  William McDonough

  Tragedy, Culture, Warning

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• A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.

  Judith Herrin

  Christian, Home, Style

  Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Buffett, Concepts

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