Charles Dickens Quotes
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
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I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
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I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
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Work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.
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Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.
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When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.
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A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.
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The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.
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'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
