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.

Thomas Keating

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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.

  

  Bai Ling
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• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  

  Ma Jian
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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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  • World
  • Live
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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.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
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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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  • Believe
  • Fear
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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'.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
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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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• Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?

  

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• The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

  

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• When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

  

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  • World
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• In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

  

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• It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team.

  

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• No good deed goes unpunished.

  

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  • Good

• 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.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • World
  • War
  • Technology