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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. Rumi

Heart, Simple, Earth, Why, Sunlight, Out

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha. B. R. Ambedkar

Science, Religion, Words, Roots, Three

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. John Wanamaker

Snow, You, Own, Your, Like, Cannot

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. Madison Smartt Bell

Sunrise, Rome, Copy, Stone, Early, Flag

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Michael Eric Dyson

History, Religion, Politics, Black

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. John James Audubon

Children, Man, Environmental, World, Who

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. Agatha Christie

Time, Live, Waiting, Will, Now, Go

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegie

Book, Ideas, Stand, Rules, You, Like

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. Guy Fieri

Penny, Candy, Trying, Worth, Back, Kid

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations. Paul Singer

Anger, Country, Pose, Imagine, Argentina

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Warren Bennis

People, Ideas, Content, Standing, Out

'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. Emily Giffin

Men, Gambling, Said, Dice, Rolling, Like

I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name. Billie Holiday

Hair, Crazy, Name, Picture, Think, Her

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the reasons for that is it's borrowed from other cultures along the way, back to Mosaic law, the Greek age of reason, Roman law and the Roman order of government, and the Republican form of government, by the way that we're guaranteed in our constitution. Steve King

Age, World, Government, Law, Back, Way

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them. Ferdinand Marcos

People, Independence, Political, Never

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Wallet, Danger, He, Having, Too

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire

Nothing, Imitation, Originality, Most

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again. Barack Obama

Future, Best, Doing, America, Choose

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. William J. Clinton

Best, Opportunity, Responsibility, World

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects. Noam Chomsky

Money, Responsibility, Plant, Little

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. Bryan Adams

Music, Beginning, Me, Pride, Doing, Know

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression. Austan Goolsbee

Depression, Great, Money, People, You

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. Boz Scaggs

Music, Together, Style, Songwriting, Put

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake. Peter Thiel

Education, Mistake, Money, College, You

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Knowledge, Science, Great, Leave, Class

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me. James Carville

Me, Library, Copy, Principles, See, Side

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