Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.
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With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.
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Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.
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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
