Evelyn Beatrice Hall Quotes
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
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There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
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I am in no doubt at all that our policy of engagements with the government of Iran ... is the best approach,
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
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Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.
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If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
