Rudyard Kipling Quotes
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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We don't want to get into a spot with Steve where we're going to cost him an opportunity someplace. But he is still determined that he is going to play on this hockey club. We're open to that too. It has a lot to do with the respect we have for him as a player and an individual.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.
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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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Roll the weed up
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If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.
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I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.
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Justice for All in the World.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
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The view, that Christ was not by nature divine but was adopted to be God’s son, emerged not out of Jewish Christianity, but from purely gentile stock. This was a group known as the Theodotians, named after their founder, a shoemaker, who happened also to be an amateur theologian, named Theodotus. Since they were centered in Rome, scholars sometimes refer to this group as the Roman Adoptionists.
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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
