Hafez Quotes
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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Never explain, never complain.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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You know, she often tells me that what I do is great. I don't think she ever thought I would end up doing this with my life. But I think she is happier that I haven't changed over the years, that I am still me, that I care about her and that we are the same as we always were. And I think that is what makes her most proud.
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The best-selling magazines to men are Playboy and Penthouse. These represent men’s primary fantasy: access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection. The best-selling magazines to women are Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, representing the female primary fantasy: better homes and gardens and a family circle.
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Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.
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For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.
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Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
