Karel Capek Quotes
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
