Rumi Quotes
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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We need workfare over welfare.
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I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
