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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Politics is like bad cinema — people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’
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There are a lot of great things that are gonna come out of this dark time.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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I’ll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs… We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work.
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That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
