Jose Rizal Quotes
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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Great artists have no country.
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The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
