Thomas Keating Quotes
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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I can always go back to education.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.
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Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.
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Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
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In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
