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“Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.”
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“A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.”
Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
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“The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.”
Source : William Robertson Smith, John Sutherland Black (1907). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
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“Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader”
Source : "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.
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“We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you see something or someone beautiful, the next time you hear it, it sounds different. So you can't cling to beauty; beauty passes and when that passes, you realize you pass too, and you will die. And that's why people cry at a beautiful view, a beautiful lecture, a beautiful painting, a new baby.”
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“You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.”
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“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
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“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”
