Maimonides Quotes
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Visit not miracle-mongers and those who exhibit occult powers. These men are stragglers from the path of Truth. Their minds have become entangled in psychic powers, which are like veritable meshes in the way of the pilgrim to Brahman. Beware of these powers, and desire them not.
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O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
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Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.
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Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
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The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
