William Arthur Ward Quotes
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
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Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
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'Love is a myth', Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.'
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You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.
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We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
