Ashok K. Banker Quotes
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
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With a doughnut in each hand, anything is possible.
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My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
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We have beastly qualities within us. If we're put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.
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The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.
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It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
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When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.
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Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
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Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.
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‘But you like her, don’t you?’ asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?’ For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.
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Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
