Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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I've never been on a date.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?
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I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.
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No practice exists in isolation.
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.
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The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
