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    I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with you. So many distinguished members of our services, and that's really what you are, very, very highly distinguished members.

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    I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

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    Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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    I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

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    I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

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    Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

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    Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

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    Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

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    Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

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    Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

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    Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

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    Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

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    Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

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    My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

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    No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

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    More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

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    One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

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    One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

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    Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

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    Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

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    Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

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    One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

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    Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

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    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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    Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

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    People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

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    Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

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    Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

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    Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

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    Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

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    Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

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    Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

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    Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

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    Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

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    Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

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    Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

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    Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

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    Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

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    Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

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    Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

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    Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

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    Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

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    Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

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    Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

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    Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

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    Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

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    Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

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    Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

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    Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

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    Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.