Al-Mutanabbi Quotes
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
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When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I write on that guitar, and it's the first guitar that I put a pickup in and ran through an amplifier, splitting the signal to the amplifier and a DI or in the studio mic'ing it traditionally and putting an amp in the other room.
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In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.
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A young soul in my ageing body Hard biter in a toothless mouth is she.
