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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Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
