Bahya ibn Paquda Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.
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The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
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There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.
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Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
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A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.
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Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
