Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
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A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.
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This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
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Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.
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From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.
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I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
