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You can see our respect for women by the fact that we have pledged to pay working women, even though they don't have to work.
-- Taliban Information Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, on the Muslim fundamentalists' ban on Afghan women i |
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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best,knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
-- Teddy Roosevelt |
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The pope is dead tired and should be left in peace. Anyone who tries to approach him, even to wish him well, is committing a sin.
-- The local parish priest in Lorenzago di Cadore, a village in the Italian Dolomites where His Holines |
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It is not the critic who counts, or the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worth cause; who, ast his best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, at his worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall nver be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt |
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas Alva Edison |
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We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from the equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson |
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One man with courage is a majority.
-- Thomas Jefferson |
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I always get what I want because I always want what I get.
-- Tim Bischoff |
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Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice; I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots.
-- Tupac Shakur |
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I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
-- Vangelis |
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo |
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
-- Victoria - Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India |
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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields |
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-- Walt Disney |
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There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
-- Walt Whitman |
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