Pope John Paul II Quotes
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in the nature of consciousness. Why do we make art? And what can we expect to have in common with other creatures in universe?
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
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human being is by nature a philosopher
