Wallace Stevens Quotes
The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
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Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy'Than cells and gibbets for 'the man.'
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Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.
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We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."
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I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
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Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
