Rumi Quotes
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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I'm usually pretty insecure.
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I might just be the luckiest girl ever.
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The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.
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Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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A treeCannot growIn its parents’ shadows.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
