Charles Eisenstein Quotes
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
Quotes to Explore
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.
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I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
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I use only essential oils for perfumes.
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It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.
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We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
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Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.
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No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
