Esther Hicks Quotes
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
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Two hands are better than four sometimes.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
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The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
