Asma Jahangir Quotes
The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.
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We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.
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The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.
