Virginia Satir Quotes
Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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Keep out of the past. It is haunted.
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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
