Etty Hillesum Quotes
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
Lapo Elkann
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
Daniel Cormier
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
Becky G
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
Gary Zukav
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
Warren Spector
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
J. William Fulbright
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
Wayne Rooney
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The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
Zig Ziglar
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When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
Carine Roitfeld
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.
Esther Duflo
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
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A living gale is better than a dead calm.
Carolyn Wells
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
