G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Quotes to Explore
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
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When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.
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I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.
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I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
