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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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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