Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I'm an emotional person.
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In today's Britain, the idea that there could be a Constitution more powerful - and even sacrosanct - than any crowned head or elected politician (thus abolishing the false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and capricious presidents) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea.
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It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.
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I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Well, I always believe that when you fail, you get up and try again and again. It's whether that what we have been doing is worthwhile or not
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The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.
