Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Quotes
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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
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Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.
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Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.
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My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.
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Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.
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But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).
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An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.
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No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.
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Those who can, must obey.
