Christina Stead Quotes
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.
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So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
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I heard you’re gonna leave me. I’ve known it for a while. I wasn’t naive to the news. My mind just couldn’t walk a mile.
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If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
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I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
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The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.
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Don’t call humans rats - rats are superior.
