"Back in World War II, we viewed the……" — Tom Hanks
"Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?"
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129 Quotes by Tom Hanks
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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
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I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I…
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The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy.…
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Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe.…
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I think it's better to feel good than to look good.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to…
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Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our…
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As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now…
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
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I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who…
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I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
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More Annihilate Quotes
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Stimulate don't Annihilate.
— Lee Haney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be…
— Maria Montessori
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But…
— Kenneth Roberts
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If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral…
— Frederick Douglass
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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that…
— Angelina Grimke
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