Rabbi Akiva Quotes
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.
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No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
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I work in public.
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Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.
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Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.
