Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
Quotes to Explore
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.
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When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
