T. D. Jakes Quotes
I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)
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People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
