Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification of their sexuality, then you open the floodgates to this kind of absurd sort of reductive view of a human.
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If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
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A life is not a waste of time
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.
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We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.
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Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
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We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
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We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn now to win one.
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The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
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Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
