Chiara Lubich Quotes
In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
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I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
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I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
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'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.
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A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
