Ramakrishna Quotes
As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
Quotes to Explore
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
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I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.
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As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
