Confucius Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
Fatema Mernissi -
I'm not a psychiatrist.
Quincy Jones -
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Hal Borland -
You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
Foster Friess -
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
Samantha Power
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
Francine Pascal -
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt -
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz -
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
Natalie Goldberg -
Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
Tasha Smith -
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine -
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
Rachel Platten
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In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says,
Charles Sanders Peirce -
You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is "What is it that you still have.
Eiichiro Oda -
As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
James Durbin Quiet Riot -
I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster -
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius