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“If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“If the citizens are wealthy, the country is strong. The King's storehouse is his people.”

Prithvi Narayan Shah (1722–1775) far-sighted king/unifier of Nepal

Quoted in page 178 of * Pradhan
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“The prayer of the true soldier is not to die peacefully, but to leave the country and its citizens with peace of mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The secret to eternal peace of mind is not in frequent prayers or meditations, but in perfecting each prayer. Aim for quality over quantity.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Love is the motto, love is the beginning, love is the source and love is everything that your heart shall crave for, in this world and the next.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal.”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

Interview on French talk show Quotidien (26 April 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUlTS87WGkw&t=682

“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

“In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.

“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

“I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

Twitter response to anti-gay religious group Westboro Baptist Church picketing a One Direction concert (19 July 2013) https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/westboro-baptist-church-one-direction_n_3634663 <br class="br">Context: Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.

“I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”

Genghis Khan (1162–1227) founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire

As quoted in Ta'Rikh-i-Jahan Gusha [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
Context: O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.