Rumi Quotes
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
Yancy Butler
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
O. R. Melling
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
Madhur Mittal
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Daniel Barenboim
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There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemons
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
Gabrielle Roy
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Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
Samuel Beckett
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If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.
Sandra Bullock
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Rumi
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
Barton Gellman
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I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.
Jeb Bush
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Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
Rumi