African Spir Quotes
If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
Quotes to Explore
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I've got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I'm offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.
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The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
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One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.
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Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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... because he was going to marry her. “It is customary to ask,” she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she’d licked and sucked and kissed not long ago. “Why?” He shrugged. “I’m not giving you a choice.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
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If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
