Bel Kaufman Quotes
Why are we quarreling about a tie? flashed through her mind; at the same time, as if propelled by a force outside of herself, she tore it from his hand and flung it furiously into the wastebasket.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?
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Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.
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But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
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The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.
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Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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Why are we quarreling about a tie? flashed through her mind; at the same time, as if propelled by a force outside of herself, she tore it from his hand and flung it furiously into the wastebasket.
