Morarji Desai Quotes
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
