Swami Sivananda (Sivananda Saraswati) Quotes
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
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Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.
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Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
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It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.
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It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.
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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
