Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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The son-of-a-bitch would shoot me just to make book on which way I'd fall!
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacock of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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I wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to these Palestinian and Israeli leaders. In particular, we pay homage to the memory of Yitshak Rabin who paid the supreme sacrifice in pursuit of peace.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
