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• I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

  Jason Mraz

  Beach, Sorry, Moving

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Blessing, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Using Resources, Oil

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Thinking, Practice

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse.

  Marilyn Dumont

  Tired, Men, Issues

  Interview with Margery Fee, canlit.ca. September 1, 2014.

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• I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Actors, Records

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Eye, Fate, Past

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• I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Surface

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Peace, Reality, Light

  "I am that". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1973.

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• Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Might, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment.

  Hugh Hefner

  Religious, Strong, Heritage

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.

  George Lucas

  Cutting, Thinking, Availability

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Army

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• Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

  Patch Adams

  Men, Years, Humanity

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

  Kevin Smith

  Worry, Trying, Debt

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• Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.

  Teju Cole

  People, Mind, President

  "Teju Cole on the 'Empathy Gap' and Tweeting Drone Strikes". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. March 6, 2013.

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• This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].

  Costa-Gavras

  President, Banking, Bills

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

  Steve Wozniak

  Funny, Humor, Successful

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• Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

  Bob Hartley

  Book, Class, Grandfather

  Source: www.braddockavenuebooks.com

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• The sports are also hard on my body, and I do have a longstanding bad back due to an injury some years ago. I don't regret any part of it though. I love what I do and my sporting career has taken me to some wonderful places and seeing the world.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Regret, Taken

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Karma, Hands, Law

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.208, BookRix

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• Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

  Narendra Modi

  Perseverance, Adventure, Technology

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• Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are unable to survive due to lack of primary healthcare facilities.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Children, Fall

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• I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

  John Hodgman

  Media, Television, Superstar

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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