H. P. Blavatsky Quotes
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.
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You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
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When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
