Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (Munshi Premchand) Quotes
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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If you're straight, if you're gay - hey, if you're a horse - and I appeal to you, great!
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
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I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.
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People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
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I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
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The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
