Elaine A. Cannon Quotes
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
Carlo Goldoni
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
Oswald Chambers
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Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.
Manning Marable
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You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
Napoleon Hill
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
Emile Zola
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US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".
Madeleine Albright
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
D. H. Lawrence
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
Plato
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First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
Lao Tzu
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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.
Lao Tzu
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When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.
Lao Tzu
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out
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I do need to travel with a purpose, though. I can't go somewhere to just hang out with friends.
Laird Hamilton
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.
Vladimir Lenin
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon
