Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

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• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

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• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

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• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
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• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

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• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
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• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

  

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• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
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• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  

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• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
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• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
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• I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Growing Up
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• Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

  

  Luke Evans
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• Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Change
  • Challenge
  • Survival

• I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
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• I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

  

  Chris Klein

• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Challenge
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Stimulation