Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.
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To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.
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A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
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I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.
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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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Obviously, it was a very conscious decision not to go down the same route we'd travelled before. In retrospect I don't think OK Computer sounded that much different to The Bends but this one does - it's a lot more textural and unlike anything we've done before.
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Life is a process. We are a process. The Universe is a process.
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If you are good, they say you are weak.
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But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
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There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
