Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
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If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.
