Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
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Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.
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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.
