Charles L. Whitfield Quotes
Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
Francesca Annis
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
Oliver Hardy
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
Katey Sagal
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
Ramana Maharshi
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Ram Dass
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
Bat for Lashes
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
Sam Kean
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
Jackson Katz
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
V. S. Naipaul
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I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.
Jennifer Hale
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
Edward Hopper
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Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions.
Vaclav Klaus
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I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
Boris Yeltsin
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Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.
Charles L. Whitfield