Bahya ibn Paquda Quotes
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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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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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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
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One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
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Fear comes, but fear passes.
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Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.