V. S. Naipaul Quotes
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.
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Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
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Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
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The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
