Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
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A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
