Freya Stark Quotes
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Quotes to Explore
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.
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If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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He told Dorothy he had brushed his shaggy hair and whiskers; but she thought he must have brushed them the wrong way, for they were quite as shaggy as before.
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Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
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Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
