Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great."
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Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery."
Diogenes
Philosopher
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
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"Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it."
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"Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love."
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"A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . ."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind."
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"I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m kind of a slob."
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"When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth."
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"What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge."
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"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
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"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam"
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"Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been."
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"I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time."
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"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."
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"A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest."
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"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is."
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"Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory."
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"There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong."
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"Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself."
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"Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance."
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"My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency."
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