Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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The unknown is always frightening.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Baghdad ain't shit.
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I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
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You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
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There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
