Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I never left doo wop.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
