"My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals."
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"Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them."
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"A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within."
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"My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do backflips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, we put things to the side, and I was able to - I'm able to see her. She's able to see me. We love each other."
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"To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do."
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"The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money."
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"If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else."
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"What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves."
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"I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me."
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"being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience"
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"As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together."
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"Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."
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"Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it."
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"I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street."
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"This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right."
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"We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone."
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"But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it."
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"Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own."
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"That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go."
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"For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second."
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