Ashoka Quotes
All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I have a couture body.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.
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As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.
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Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
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All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.
