Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
Patricia Ireland
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I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
Faith Evans
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Zach Wamp
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I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
Dana Davis
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. Wilson
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover
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In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.) If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of - Christianity and Islam.
Ann Coulter
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Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.
Joanna Going
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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
Avery Brooks
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Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
Martin Luther
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill
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I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.
Misha Glenny
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Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.
T. J. Perkins
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True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.
Hazrat Inayat Khan