Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Mother Teresa
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
Arthur Daniel Miller
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!
George C. Wolfe
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We came up short on offense and that's on me.
Joe Gibbs
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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Oprah Winfrey
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Elia Kazan
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I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
Eliot Spitzer
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Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.
George Foreman
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
Muhammad Ali
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It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.
James G. Frazer
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
Gautama Buddha
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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.
Gary Young
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It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Mother Teresa
