Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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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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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn’t quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.
