Faiz Ahmad Faiz Quotes
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
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When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
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I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.
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For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
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Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
