Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
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I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.
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I chose my own path because that was the only way.
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In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
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In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.
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Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
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I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14, and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though.
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We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.
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When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
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It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
