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"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America."
"The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me."
"I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting."
"I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that."
"It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again"
"You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere."
"I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?"
"We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God."
"You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome."
"The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status."
"If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done."
"Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?"
"A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal."
"The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows."
"I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props."
"I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself."
"Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do."
"I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief."
"It's only through form that we can realize emptiness"
"Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it."
