U Thant Quotes
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
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There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.
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... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.