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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Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.
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If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.
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Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.