Josephine Baker Quotes
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
Quotes to Explore
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
Vikram Seth
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
Jack Ma
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'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'
Garth Nix
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Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
H. P. Lovecraft
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And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.
Margaret Fuller
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God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
Alexander Pushkin
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
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Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.
Soren Kierkegaard
