I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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