Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
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We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.
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I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.
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Freedom means the U.S. government not being the main threat to countries around the world.
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I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.
