William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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No one person is an island.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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I play well with everybody.
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
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You've got to be brave.
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Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.
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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
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It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
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If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.
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Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
