Ignazio Silone Quotes
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I love women more than anything.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.
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From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.
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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
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I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction.
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Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
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W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
