Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.
Mother Teresa
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
Haley Joel Osment
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
Ice Cube
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
Frances Beinecke
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
Sally Kirkland
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Baz Luhrmann
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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And at the start of every new day, I still believed I could choose my own beginning, one that was scrubbed clean of everything past
Nami Mun
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Dont forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.
Will Shields
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We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
Paul Gillmor
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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.
Stephen Fry
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Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.
Beth Gibbons
Portishead
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If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.
Mother Teresa