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“I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was.”

Home House Hours Half Doors Prove Picks Police Scripts Stranger Neighbor Hills Bother Afternoon Suspicious Beard Lurking Beverly Hills

Author:Ross Martin

“I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.”

Important Dream Kids Parent Family Members Blessed Luck Neighbor Pursue Rainbow Uncles Aunt Down The Road Family Members

Author:Dolly Parton

“The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.”

“Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.”

“A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ends Country States Certain Speak Language Refuse Neighbor Settling Agreement Mutual Settling In

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.”

Ifs Mistake Growing Failing Blessing Worthy Neighbor Awful Settling Expanding Jerusalem Settlement Predecessors

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.”

Ends Form Next Nature Embrace Neighbor Atoms Plastic

Book:An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. With Notes Illustrative of the Grammatical Construction, Designed as a Text-book for Parsing

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. With Notes Illustrative of the Grammatical Construction, Designed as a Text-book for Parsing

“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”

Long Has Beens Evil House Fear Difficult Black White Taken Doubt Taught Neighbor Granted Witch Provoking Yards Validity Taken For Granted Unchanging Stampede

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.”

People Universe Christ Environment Blood Taught Disease Anxiety Communicate Sexuality Aids Neighbor Cups Communion Surgery Register Taught Us

Author:Susan Sontag

“We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.”

Thinking Knows Way May Different Reason Strong Doubt Bears Thousand Charity Affection Neighbor God Love Different Ways No Doubt Proportion Our Love Majesty Fraternal

Author:Teresa of Avila

“There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.”

People World Ideas Would Be Names Consequence Neighbor Tyranny Labels Tolerate Hateful Loathe Detest

Book:Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote

Source: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote

“Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.”

Sometimes Winning Leader Democracy Election Neighbor Dictator Reverse Governance Good Governance Elected Leaders

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.”

Moments Lying Values Situation Moral Principles Eternal Messages Universal Critical Convinced Aids Neighbor Our Society Thyself Moral Principles Love Thy Neighbor

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.”

Ifs Knows Humans Fall Human Beings Accepting Grace Equal Neighbor Severity

Author:Stefan Zweig

“You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.”

Needs Helping Decision Struggle Empathy Neighbor Neighborhood Personal Life Empathetic Bad Decision

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Believe Humans Hate Hurt Human Beings Our Lives Solutions I Hate Chaos Neighbor Hated Love Life Thyself Love Thy Neighbor

Author:Byron Katie

“The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.”

Knows Can Do Neighbor Revolutionary Apolitical

Author:Karl Hess

“My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.”

People Humans Light Action Song Interest My Own Space Responsibility Darkness Conditions Responsible Envy Neighbor Invention Candle Human Condition Being Responsible Cursing

Author:Karl Hess

“See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.”

People Kind Three Jesus Neighbor Drawing Devoted Making Peace

Book:The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)

Source: The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)

“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”

Perfect Charity Neighbor Perfect Friendship

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.”

Helping Duty Concerned Faults Neighbor Neutrality Meddling

Author:William Penn

“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.”

World Firsts Running Peace Christ Community Forget Teacher Trouble Teaching Labor Universal Bases Neighbor Obligation Followers Thyself Our Community Love Thy Neighbor World Love

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.”

Two Funny Happiness Watches Week Findings Sitting Neighbor Vacation Slides Two Weeks Colony Sitting Down Nudists

Author:Johnny Carson

“Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.”

Sin Neighbor Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Author:Faina Ranevskaya

“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”

May Different States Kids Today Young House Parent United Talking United States Generations Clubs Neighbor Joining Porch Jogging Physical Fitness

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.”

Knows Problem Care Week Neighbor Paradise Temporary

Author:Garrison Keillor

“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”

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Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.”

Ideas Grows Love Is Virtue Stronger Slave Oneself Vices Neighbor Selfish Superiors Theft Involving Loathe

Book:Magick: In Theory and Practice

Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice

“I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.”

Force Stuff Neighbor Faster Productive Neurotic

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Communism has established centres of infection... No area in the world is as vital to American security as the Caribbean...We need a massive injection of money to reset the country on its feet, and this injection can come only from our great, capable friend and neighbor the United States.”

World Needs Country States United United States Feet Security Capable Areas Neighbor Communism Massive Centre Infection Caribbean Reset Injection

Author:Francois Duvalier

“Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.”

Reason Neighbor Begin Again

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.”

“These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”

Home Values Father Moral Saws Taught Kings Honor And Love Neighbor March Heritage Luther American Values God And Love

Author:Mitt Romney

“Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.”

“If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.”

Ifs Water Alive Air Tables Neighbor Palestinian Fresh Air

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. And I'm proud to see an Iraq that is now emerging with a stronger government, a truly multiethnic, multi-sectarian government that's about to have its second set of elections, that's inviting private investment into Iraq, and that is making peace with its Arab neighbors.”

Government Decision Millions Proud Stronger Election Investment Iraq Neighbor Administration Liberation Saddam Hussein Emerging Making Peace Inviting

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, "Love thy neighbor!" means "Love the Muslims!" OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.”

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Author:Slavoj Žižek

“I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.”

World Want Whole Fire Materials Boxes Neighbor Whole World Coal Advise Heirs Explosives Cardboard Boxes

Author:Pierre Schaeffer

“A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.”

World May Mean Whole Happens Mother Teacher Neighbor Whole World Vicious Vicious Cycles

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.”

Love Giving Strong Social And Love Instinct Neighbor Thyself Parental Mammals Love Thy Neighbor Do Unto Others Yourself And Love

Author:Charles Darwin

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.”

Long Running Suffering Nations Taught Depends Ethics Prosperity Neighbor Sufficient Long Runs Taught Us

Author:John Buchan

“We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.”

Ifs Mean Real Christian Law Forget Exercise Essentials Injustice Neighbor Violent Denial Nonviolence Redress

Author:Philip Berrigan

“It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.”

People Way Needs Facts Helping Speak Results Numbers Neighbor Medical Sickness Neighborhood Customs Disorder Isolated Norm Large Numbers Norwegians Medical Help

Author:Carl I. Hagen

“One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?”

Wells Said Found House Neighbor Tigers Crumbs

Author:Nasreddin

“A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.”

Children Country Running Streets Return Offers Office Strive Caring Neighbor Empowering Our Society Empowering Women Private Sector Running For Office Partnering

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan