Tyrone Hayes Quotes
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
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Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
