G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Quotes to Explore
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
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There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?
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I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.
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This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
