Mahavira Quotes
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.
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A 7-footer who hits a step-back jumper - that's a pretty unicorn-like thing. Or someone who blocks a shot off the top of the backboard, pushes it in transition, and finds a shooter in the corner - that's pretty unicorn-like.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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In the Roman psyche the East had long been a place of danger, but also a place of plenty. The first Emperor Augustus famously said of Rome that he found a city built in brick but left it in marble – all that money had to come from somewhere. India was repeatedly described in Roman sources as a land of unimaginable wealth. Pliny the Elder complained that the Roman taste for exotic silks, perfumes and pearls consumed the city. ‘India and China and Arabia together drain our Empire. That is the price that our luxuries and our womankind cost us.’ It was the construction of the Via Egnatia and attendant road-systems that physically allowed Rome to expand eastwards, while the capture of Egypt intensified this magnetic pull. Rome had got the oriental bug, and Byzantium, entering into a truce with the Romans in 129 BC following the Roman victory in the Macedonian Wars that kick-started Gnaeus Egnatius’ construction of the Via Egnatia, was a critical and vital destination before all longer Asian journeys began.
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
