Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
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Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
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It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.
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God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.
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You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.
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You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.
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He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.
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There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
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Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
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As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
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From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
