Emily Dickinson Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.
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He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
