Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
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Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
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Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.
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Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.
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Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.
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We cut tax exemptions in 1986, it was the most admired tax reform in U.S. history. Congress and the president worked together then to eliminate scores of loopholes and exemptions and deductions; this made taxes much simpler, and allowed a major cut in tax rates.
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I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
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A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
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In my opinion, it gives us freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all nations desire.. but the freedom to achieve it.
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Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
