Umar Quotes

Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  

  Walter Anderson
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• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
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• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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• You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Travel
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• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
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  • Black
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• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
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• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Late

• So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
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• And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Children
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• Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
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• If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

  

  Homaro Cantu
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• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  

  Umar
  • Wisdom
  • Prayer
  • Looks