Will Durant Quotes
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will Durant
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
Dan Maffei
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Tariq Ali
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
W. Bruce Cameron
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford
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There are one or two things, which you can directly do in very critical times. But otherwise, this indirect influence that you can exercise on the affairs of the State is the most important role he can play. And, he can play it successfully only if he is, his ideas and his nature of functioning are seen by the public in tune with their standards. The President has to be a citizen and there must be some equation between the people and the President, and if some advice or something is to be given to the executive, it would be received with grace, it would be sometimes accepted, if it is known that the public opinion is on the side of the kind of advice the President is giving. Otherwise, he cannot exercise much influence.
K. R. Narayanan
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
Willa Cather
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
Cara Delevingne
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will Durant
