Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
Quotes to Explore
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
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Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.
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That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
