Umar Quotes
Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).
Quotes to Explore
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very... outside. So if you're finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we're good to go.
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I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.
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I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
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I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.
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I'm always in the market for my acting.
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Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
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Societies depend on agreed rules.
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If you put a camera on the wall, you would laugh at some of the fights me and my brothers had.
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The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I’m not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I’m pretty humbled.
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The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
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Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).
