 I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity. Author: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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| All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. Author: Abigail Adams
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| All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car. Author: Abraham Zapruder
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| I got off the abutment and walked towards my office. Author: Abraham Zapruder
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| Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America. Author: Adam Schiff
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| Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream. Author: Adam Schiff
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| On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Author: Albert Camus
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| We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Author: Albert Camus
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| The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. Author: Alcee Hastings
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| The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski
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| Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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| Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. Author: Alex Campbell
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| Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. Author: Alex Campbell
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| It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. Author: Alexander Herzen
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| Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. Author: Alexander Herzen
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| To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Author: Alfred Adler
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| All labour is directed towards producing some effect. Author: Alfred Marshall
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| When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Author: Alison Bechdel
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| Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. Author: Alphonse Karr
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| The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. Author: Alva Myrdal
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| Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. Author: Alvin Adams
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| Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development. Author: Andrew Oliver
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| If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time. Author: Anna Neagle
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| Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. Author: Annie Lennox
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| The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides. Author: Ariel Sharon
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| In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. Author: Arthur Helps
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| People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards. Author: Arthur Rock
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| The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Author: Auguste Rodin
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| I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. Author: Austin Peck
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| The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Author: Barbara de Angelis
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| More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. Author: Barbara Jordan
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| I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. Author: Barney Frank
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| I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man. Author: Barry Sheene
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| I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades. Author: Bela Kun
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| Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. Author: Bell Hooks
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| Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. Author: Ben Elton
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| Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense. Author: Ben Nicholson
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| You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. Author: Ben Nicholson
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| Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. Author: Bette Midler
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| You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on. Author: Bill Paxton
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| Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. Author: Bill Toomey
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| I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. Author: Billie Jean King
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| I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos. Author: Bo Gritz
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| You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan. Author: Bob Dole
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| It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on. Author: Bob Geldof
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| If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls! Author: Boris Becker
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| The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. Author: Boris Spassky
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| The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003! Author: Brian Sibley
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| If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. Author: Brian Tracy
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| I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look. Author: Buck Owens
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| Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God. Author: Catherine McAuley
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| To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. Author: Charles Baudelaire
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| Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Author: Charles de Gaulle
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| Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection. Author: Charles Jules Henry Nicole
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| We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. Author: Charles Sturt
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| The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better. Author: Charlotte Church
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| I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg
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| When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. Author: Chauncey Depew
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| I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues. Author: Christopher Columbus
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| As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice. Author: Christy Turlington
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| Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us. Author: Christy Turlington
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| I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. Author: Cicely Tyson
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| That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson. Author: Clare Short
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| In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. Author: Claude Nicollier
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| But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people. Author: Cliff Richard
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| Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality. Author: Clifton Fadiman
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| In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. Author: Colin Greenwood
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| Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. Author: Compay Segundo
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| He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. Author: Confucius
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| My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. Author: Cory Doctorow
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| Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. Author: Dag Hammarskjold
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| Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. Author: Daniel Barenboim
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| An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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| Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold. Author: Dannii Minogue
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| As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further. Author: David Brainerd
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| The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. Author: David Hare
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| Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. Author: David Herbert Lawrence
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| One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. Author: David Herbert Lawrence
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| No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. Author: David R. Ellis
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| But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery. Author: David Rittenhouse
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| We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. Author: David Suzuki
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| As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. Author: Dean Kamen
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| The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. Author: Dean Koontz
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| It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work. Author: Delta Burke
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| The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. Author: Denis Diderot
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| I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Author: Diane Wakoski
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| Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. Author: Dinah Sheridan
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| Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals. Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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| She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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| While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. Author: Dorothy Denning
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| Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? Author: Dorothy Thompson
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| What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. Author: E. M. Forster
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