Rudyard Kipling Quotes
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.
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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
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He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.
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Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
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The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.
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If she bad, she get a pass into the tour.
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When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
