O. Carl Simonton Quotes
Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.
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Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it's other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here's the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
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Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
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Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain
