Deepak Chopra Quotes
Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.
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I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
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My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
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I think the biggest part of being on a sound system is wanting to always be the best.
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O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
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Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
