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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#injunction #love #means #neighbors #our

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law. ↗

— Demosthenes

#enemy #every #freedom #law #opponent

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films. ↗

— Ted Demme

#control #developed #film #films #good

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#democracy #force #journalism #maintains #progressive

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#had #listened #people #played #say

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. ↗

— Demosthenes

#cannot #conduct #his #man #mean

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #divorce #dying #god #grief

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

#despots #free #never #safe #states

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ↗

— Demosthenes

#correct #get #ourselves #readiest #rid

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#called #competition #did #dinner #golden