Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Writers are so important.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.
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Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on.
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Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
