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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,…
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I…
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves,…
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
— Bill Klem
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I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
— Alistair Maclean
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Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We…
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters…
— Peter Diamandis
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Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.
— Theophilus London
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a…
— Rashida Jones
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