Thomas Keating Quotes
Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
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So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.
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It seemed important to us that an old drover who walked his cattle a thousand miles or more should be remembered for that achievement.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
