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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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
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You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
