Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life."
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Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter."
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything."
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"The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you."
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"My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole."
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"Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole."
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"My whole act is confession."
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"I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life."
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"If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all."
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"We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say."
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"The whole world is not worth one soul."
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"The whole world is one neighborhood."
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"I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole."
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"Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it."
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"Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world."
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"You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body."
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"She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her."
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"I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world."
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"What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry."
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"Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living."
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"I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul."
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"The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day."
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"I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man."
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