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.

  

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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
  • Women
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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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.

  

  Warren Farrell
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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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• As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.

  

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• When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

  

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

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• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

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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.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • World
  • War
  • Technology