Will Durant Quotes
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
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When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.
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ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις
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Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
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We the U.S. think nothing…of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
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I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
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I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
