G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
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A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
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We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
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Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
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I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
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I always soak in a bath with Epsom salts for a minimum of 20 minutes to absorb the magnesium once I get home.
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I really want to thank Annika Sorenstam. She helped me a lot about my game, about the mentals, and she told me go step by step.
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The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
