Chanakya Quotes
All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.
Quotes to Explore
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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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Little Zac had it easy – but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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I spend as much time as possible at my stable in the Hollywood Hills. It keeps me sane.
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All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.
