Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
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My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
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There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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Some things are better done than described.
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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
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If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.
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It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
