Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Quotes to Explore
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
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I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
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Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
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I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good horse rider: I thought falling off was normal, and I would just get back on again. I didn't realise you weren't meant to fall off.
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The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
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Watching 'Morvern Callar' was a game changer for me.
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Everyone has to eat, so the opportunities in the space are incredible.
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What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.
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Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.
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I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.
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Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
