Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.
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It's very encouraging to see the structural changes that the RNC has made this past year in engaging communities on the ground. Recognizing that the way to reach voters is to go into their communities instead of reaching out from an office in Washington DC is essential for victory in elections today.
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This group is composed of those for whom belief in saucers is tantamount to religion...They believe men from outer space will step in on Earth 'before it's too late,' put a stop to the atomic bomb threat 'by their superior powers,' and enforce perpetual peace 'for the good of the universe'...
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
