Rumi Quotes

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

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• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

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• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

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• I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

  

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  Victor Hugo
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• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

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• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  

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• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  

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• When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

  

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• If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

  

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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

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• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  

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• I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • World
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• For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Desire
  • Prison