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“Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.”

Term Independence Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.”

Thinking Self Dream Term Party Democracy Democrat Selfless

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.”

Term Duty Morality Performances Observance

Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.”

Ifs Understanding Term Education Honest Affair Citizenship Earnest Short Term

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“2-in-1 is a stupid term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.”

Enough Humor Bigs Funny Term Stupid

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".”

Knows Mean Shows Humor Funny Term Jokes Add Sugar Cds Show Biz

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.”

Humor Eye Funny Term Animal Gambling Snakes

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.”

Form Term Animal Benefits Wander Borders Officials Primitive Currency Declaration Whim Passports Gorillas Bribery Beastly

Book:Last Chance To See

Source: Last Chance To See

“I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.”

Enough Term Simple Raised Fortunate Very Romantic

Author:Hugh Hefner

“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Hard Done Film Term Stage Scripts Executives Conventional

Author:George Lucas

“You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Kind Has Beens Term Behinds Audience Theory Performances Theater Moved Valuable Storytelling Instant Feedback Live Performance Live Theater

Author:George Lucas

“In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.”

People Knows Important Real Ends Hard Kids Three Goal Term Realizing Pay Attention Hard Work Important Things Raised Pay Attention Accomplishment

Author:George Lucas

“In terms of everything, I'm happy and stand behind my video. If you can't tell we had a lot of fun doing it and you want to nitpick - I don't know. That's why you exist on the internet and not anywhere else.”

Ifs Knows Want Fun Term Behinds Internet Video

Author:Hoodie Allen

“There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.”

Term Performances Rap Fearless

Author:Doc Brown

“I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.”

Writing Desire Term Acting Being The Best

Author:Doc Brown

“Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.”

Choices Stuff Term Situation Growing Up Growing Relative Menus

Author:Gary Busey

“The greatest power you have is your faith. F-A-I-T-H. And the word faith stands for Fantastic Adventures In Trusting Him. God will be there to fight all your battles, all you have to do is let him. Faith is very strong. Part of my life ministry is talking about God in terms of bringing back who I really am to the forefront of my identity.”

Fighting Strong Term Talking Identity Adventure Battle Gods Will Fantastic Very Strong Ministry Trusting Him

Author:Gary Busey

“Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.”

Thinking Trying Looks Sometimes Dream Opportunity Term Teach Focus Influence Achieve Our Dreams

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.”

Choices Term Realizing Feminism Diversity Motherhood Defined Great Men Excess Liberating

Author:Betty Friedan

“Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.”

Humor Funny Bits Term Limits Members Vote Asking Congress Chickens Incumbents Colonels Term Limits

Author:Bob Inglis

“We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.”

Needs Long War Nations Term Effects Security Arms Dollars Defense Long Term Adequate Weakening Adequacy

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people...”

People Long Doe Individual Social Term Accepting Century Endure Conservative Decades Experiments Evolve Controlled Ongoing

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.”

People Want Feels Trying Doe Book Matter Facts Hands Film Term Novel Hollywood No Matter What Careful Artistic Be Careful Turkeys

Author:Stephen King

“There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.”

Ifs Looks Long Made Said Done Choices Term Levels Mistake Practice Our Lives Perspective Terrible Blessing Brilliant Disaster Dumb Long Term Length

Author:Richard Bach

“Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.”

Thinking Self Might Given Term Higher Standards Defined Attainment Success And Failure Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior”

Self Speak Social Term Behavior Efficacy Self Efficacy Informative Social Behavior

Author:Albert Bandura

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

Littles Use Seems Difficult Term Moral Concepts Abuse Critics Afternoon Decadence

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.”

People Thinking World Years Past Film Term Setback

Author:Catherine Corsini

“Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.”

“Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.”

Feels Should Mind Humans Mean Important Spiritual Energy Term Religious Careful Human Spirit Great Power Spiritual Energy

Author:Yoko Ono

“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.”

Ifs Needs Humans Has Beens Term Violence Century Madness Twentieth Century Climax

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.”

Hard Spiritual Asks Term Teacher Ask Me Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.”

Problem Term Interest Politician Including Opposition Voting Effectiveness Having Hope

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.”

Way Want Different Done Felt Term Different Ways

Author:Joan Didion

“"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. Most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.”

Two Ends Problem Reality Government Individual Term Party Source Thirds Inequality Pollution Free Market Transactions Third Parties Between You And Me

Author:Milton Friedman

“I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.”

People Way Term Emotional Huge Behavior Intellectual Mark Blind Spots Sophisticated Blind Spots

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Sometimes Character Actors Understanding Term Trouble Skills Pages Preparation

Author:William H. Macy

“Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.”

Made I Can Hard Done Stories Term Can Do Seeing Huge Brilliant Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Not Interested Artifacts Movie Making

Author:Philip Pullman

“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.”

“Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.”

Long Two Today Past Term Blood Week Revolution Evolution Spread Long Term Two Weeks

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.”

People Thinking Writing Suffering Term Beats Crap

Author:Jules Feiffer

“Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.”

Trying Term Planets Right Now Threat Acknowledge Agriculture Biodiversity

Author:Wes Jackson

“In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.”

Long Country Term Security Acceptance Israel Secure Long Term Bombs Atoms Palestinian Pillars Atom Bomb

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. You would have thought that the end of all this innovation, technological advancement, and financial wizardry should be to create less work, not more of it.”

World Should Ends Country Seems Term Economic Hard Work Innovation Extraordinary Financial Hardest Technological Advancement Output Wizardry Technological Advancement

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.”

Different Courses Winning Term Millions Eight Relative Championship

Author:Oliver Kahn

“I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.”

Thinking Bigs Term Technology Entertainment My Time

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.”

Thinking Way Stills Book Term Materials Computer Property Proportion Length

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.”

Thinking World Order Term Struggle Conflict Universal Inevitable Anarchy Conferences World Order Disarmament Focal Point Armed Conflict

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.”

Certain Universe Term Unique Standards Relation Productions Ideology Blah Unique Experiences

Author:Slavoj Žižek

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