Sun Myung Moon Quotes
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.
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The chief of staff says I'm the guy.
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I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.
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Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.
