"People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?"
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"Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years."
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"We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way."
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"The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection."
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"Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all."
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"There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times."
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"Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility."
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"Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life."
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"I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours."
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"We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours."
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"One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do."
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"For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it."
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"Film school was a privilege I could not afford."
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"A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that."
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"Never live beneath your privileges."
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"How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god."
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"Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge."
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"The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country."
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"All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American."
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"The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative"
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