Kahlil Gibran Quotes
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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Those who go along get along.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.
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Since space is continuous, it follows that there must be an immediate community of feeling between parts of mind infinitesimally close together. Without this, I believe it would have been impossible for any co-ordination to be established in the action of the nerve-matter of one brain.
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In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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My enemy said to me, 'Love your enemy.' And I obeyed him and loved myself.
