Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Compromise has a negative connotation.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.
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A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
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My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
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A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.
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The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
