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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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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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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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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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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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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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'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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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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Israeli suffering has to be understood.
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No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!
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In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, and when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about.
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Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.
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I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
