Plutarch Quotes
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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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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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
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Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.
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I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!
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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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There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.
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Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
