Chico Xavier (Francisco Cândido Xavier) Quotes
It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I don't know anything about science.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
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I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.
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Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
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I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.
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It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.
