After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

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Author: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

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The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

Author: Ian Watson
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When the burden is too heavy on your heart. Cast the weight upon the Lord, for he cares that, you ca

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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be co

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There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner

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A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair

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Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language

Author: Thomas Paine
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Author: Maimonides
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If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.

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You make velocity look good.

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But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Author: Aristotle
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us,

Author: Ja Rule
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Author: William Shakespeare
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Fear could never make a virtue.

Author: Voltaire
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

Author: Olga Kurylenko
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Brie's expiration date on revenge was never.

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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to

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The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power

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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Author: Amiri Baraka
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Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.

Author: Donald J. Trump
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Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. Wha

Author: Toni Sorenson
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My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where

Author: Michael Ealy
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I’m curious about why there’s so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone

Author: Mackie Burt
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Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.

Author: Anthony Liccione
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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the mos

Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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I love when my mind focuses on how wonderful I am and lets all the other (less generous) thoughts re

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Attitude distinguishes between a winner and a loser.

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The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exe

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Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it’s not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which

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Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

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Inherent in all persons does be,Love and compassion unfailingly.Give to others your love freely,And

Author: Munindra Misra
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Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald,

Author: Erika Christensen
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My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Author: Michael Pollan
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Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

Author: Rainbow Rowell
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Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work

Author: Brad McKinniss
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Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the grou

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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much

Author: C. S. Lewis
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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something

Author: Cassandra Clare
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I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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Passion for compassion will give you happiness.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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My intellect was my greatest vanity.

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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who c

Author: Gustave Flaubert
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Persist with great passion and fulfill your great dreams.

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next

Author: Abraham Lincoln
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Author: Democritus
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Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was rig

Author: Daniel M. Greenberger
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthw

Author: Denis Waitley
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People should read more.

Author: Aaron B. Powell
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the

Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
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Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

Author: John Hughes
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Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McD

Author: Steven Barnes
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And that's where love finds you... in the tragedies.

Author: Colleen Hoover
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Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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I don't hate anybody," Tobias said calmly. "It's strange, but right now, I don't even hate the Yeerk

Author: K. A. Applegate
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Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one languag

Author: Thomas Paine
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Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. Tha

Author: Massad Ayoob
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Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for wh

Author: Thomm Quackenbush
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You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luc

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[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Author: Herman Melville
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already k

Author: John D. Rockefeller
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Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to exp

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a

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The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they a

Author: David Gianadda
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Whatever you do, do with integrity. Wherever you go, go as a leader. Have courage to lead. Whenever

Author: Curt Carlson
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My soul hunger for the living bread.

Author: Unknown
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Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or

Author: Bill Schutt
Quote #47805

For every success, there is a system

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My freedom to say 'No' directly underscores your freedom to say 'Yes'. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT

Author: Mamur Mustapha
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The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his mone

Author: Hisham Fawzi
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The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic

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You should know that Rafael is not the beast he would have you believe he is. He may be harsh, but h

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ar

Author: Douglas Adams
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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us

Author: Harper Lee
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Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

Author: Kristin Cashore
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I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize

Author: Philip Seymour Hoffman
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One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace wit

Author: Robert Zeidan
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Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power

Author: Robin Wasserman
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As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my c

Author: David Mixner
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a pre

Author: Carl Sagan
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Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is

Author: Baris Gencel
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God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather

Author: J.R. Ward
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He that can have patience can have what he will.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
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That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Author: Ransom Riggs
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I can never ‘un-love’ you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of

Author: Marina Simcoe
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Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry thems

Author: Andre Benjamin
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We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give

Author: Jeff Goins
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Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Sc

Author: Margaret Mitchell
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It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And

Author: G.A. Aiken
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But only a few have the will -- be it born of courage or recklessness, folly or sublime wisdom -- to

Author: Ed Tarkington
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I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when

Author: Rose Pressey
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Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

Author: Stellan Skarsgard
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When we truly care, we mix love, compassion, and kindness together in our hearts.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go.

Author: Danielle Steel
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Author: Hans Hofmann
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, th

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral

Author: Gary Bauer
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It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.

Author: Arthur P. Ciaramicoli