Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
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A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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She was in that place in your soul where friends go who die but you still love them and talk to them and think of them.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
