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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
There's no time to discriminate, hate every mother f-cker that's in your way.
It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money, there are no good shoe stores.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says "Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all."
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.