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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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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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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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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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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I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
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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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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
