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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In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.
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Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.
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Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
