Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
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Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
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A willingness to be exposed and vulnerable. One of the major limitations of imagination’s fruits is the fear of standing out. It is more than a fear of criticism. It is anxiety at being alone, of being in a position where one can rely little on others, a position that puts one’s own resources to the test, a position where one will have to take total responsibility for one’s own response to the environment. Leaders must not only not be afraid of that position; they must come to love it.
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The attention is to be kept pure.
