Rumi Quotes
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Tea is a huge part of my life.
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Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.
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Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
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But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly
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If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.
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I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.
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If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.
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I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.