Alva Myrdal Quotes
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.
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I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
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If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?
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it has now become obvious that most of the state institutions, including the judiciary, the army, the security apparatus and most of the government departments, stood against him Morsi. They acted in a co-ordinated manner to foment a crisis aimed at impeding the president and forcing failure on him.
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The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
