Salman Rushdie Quotes
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
