Philip James Bailey Quotes
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.
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What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.
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I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.
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Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
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It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
