Franz Kafka Quotes
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
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When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Honey you came along and captured my heartNow my love is somewhere lost in your kissWhen I'm all alone it's you that I missGirl, a love like yours is hard to resist.
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I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
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Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'
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I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
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Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
