Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.
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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
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With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
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Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
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You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.
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I believe that rather than it being a case of humans versus machines, the future of financial advice more likely lies somewhere in between, where human advisors leverage artificial intelligence and automation to become smarter and more efficient at doing their jobs.
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If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
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I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
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It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.
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After realization, the attention becomes enlightened.
