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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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
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The attention is to be kept pure.
