Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

  Ted Olson
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• Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

  

  Vijay Mallya
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• I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

  

  Zach Braff
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  • House
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• My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Great
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• I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Age
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• I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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• 'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

  

  Walter Scott
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• When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

  

  Larry Wall
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• Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.

  

  John Mayer
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• Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.

  

  Learned Hand
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• Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
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• While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Lies
  • Determination

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Napoleon

• It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Fast
  • Denial