Basilea Schlink Quotes
Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
Irvin D. Yalom
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
Vince Vaughn
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
Jack Osbourne
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
Calvin Johnson
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana Maharshi
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
Malala Yousafzai
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Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.
Walter Scott
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
Quintilian
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
Jack Vance
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Anna Sui
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I will remain on the throne until I fall off!
Margrethe II of Denmark
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There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective. Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.
Hillary Clinton
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I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.
Lord Byron
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud
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To begin, I am a citizen of the world. The Earth is my country, and humanity is my nation. This is my motto: What everyone has longed for and will be achieved when all of the people shall also celebrate this prize that every Yemeni, and every Arab, and every human being and every woman has also won beside me.
Tawakkol Karman
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I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.
Basilea Schlink