Walpola Rahula Quotes
As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
Walpola Rahula
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
Madeleine L'Engle
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
Samuel Johnson
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
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The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
W. H. Auden
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
John Burroughs
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It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
Benito Mussolini
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When I got back from London, I started with a new voice teacher in the experimental wing, who trained me to have my own artistry as opposed to forcing a technique upon me.
Lia Ices
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Deep down, I feel 'Doll & Em' is a love letter to our dads, because we adored them.
Dolly Wells
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
Felix Dennis
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I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.
Jamie Bell
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I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'
Charlie Worsham
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As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
Walpola Rahula