Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

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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.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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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.

  

  S. M. Stirling
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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.

  

  Erykah Badu
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• Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

  

  Kevin Keegan
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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?

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  

  Van Jones
  • Together
  • Future
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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.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Problem
  • Communication
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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Long
  • Sex

• There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

  

  Ze Frank

• 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.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Movies
  • Leave
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• Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Constitution
  • Democratic
  • Soviet

• Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mean
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• Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • People
  • World
  • Film

• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Failing
  • Forgiving
  • Gentle

• Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Thinking

• It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Forgiving
  • Forgiven