Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
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I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.
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Is it better to be loved or feared?
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
