Nilus of Sinai Quotes
“Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.”
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
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I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.
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I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
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I'm pretty simple. I have every product in the world, but I tend to use three things: cleanser, toner, and moisturizer.
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The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.
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Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.
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I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.
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Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to stand in their way. That's not just because it's economically smart. It's because discrimination shouldn't be the law.
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Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.
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Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.
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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
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How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
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“Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.”
