Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Quotes to Explore
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.
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Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
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Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
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I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
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There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
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I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?
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My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
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I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.
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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
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People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.
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We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.
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I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
