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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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
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What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five themes for one character. And five themes for another. And then I'll take one piece of one of them and put it with a piece of another one for that character or take another theme from another character and move it into this character.... And when I have my characters finally dressed, then he composes.
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A man was desired to rise from bed, because the sun was already risen. To which he replied: 'If I had as far to go, and as much to do as he has, I should be risen by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not rise yet.'
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Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
