Rumi Quotes
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity- the illusion that passage of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around you.
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'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
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If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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Are ye too changed, ye hills? See, ’tis no foot of unfamiliar men Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays! Here came I often, often, in old days; Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
