Rabbi Akiva Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.
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The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. She said why should I you never put out for me.
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The paper burns, but the words fly away.
