Charles Eisenstein Quotes
A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact. It is a statement of faith.
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It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
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O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God!
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The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.
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A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.
