Nazim Hikmet (Nâzım Hikmet Ran) Quotes
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
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Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.
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Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.
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I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas.
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I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.
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If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
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Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
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In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in their approach and, a lot of times, that can lead to potential conflict, and then a debate in figuring out who and what is the right way to do it.
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We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting.
