Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
D. H. Lawrence
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
Camille Paglia
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
Randall Munroe
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Edith Stein
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
Walter Kirn
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Salman Rushdie
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When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
Vijay Sethupathi
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
Samora Machel
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Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.
Anthony Kennedy
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They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.
Margaret Mead
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.
Walt Whitman
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I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.
Cathleen Falsani
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I never worked with a stinker.
How great is that!
Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber
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Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
Oprah Winfrey
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In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
Nirmala Srivastava
