Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Be obscure clearly.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!
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You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
