Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
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This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.
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We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
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How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?
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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
