Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes
The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.
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It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.
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Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
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For years, I swore I couldn't work out because my own sweat gave me a rash.
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What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.
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It feels so good to win, you want to do it again and again.
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Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.
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I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?
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I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.
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What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
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A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.
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The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.
