Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
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The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.
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How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
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Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.