Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
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Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
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There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
