Beverly Engel Quotes
What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.
Quotes to Explore
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'
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When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.
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I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
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The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".
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As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come out over time. But as an artist, sometimes you only get five minutes to impress someone, so it is kind of hard.
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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
