Selma Lagerlof Quotes
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.
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On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other!'
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision on whether and when to pray.
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Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.
