Yasmina Khadra Quotes
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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My hunger is always there.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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All men of honor are alone.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.
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The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
