Aristotle Quotes
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.
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Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
