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.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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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.
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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
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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".
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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.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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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.
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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.
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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.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.
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The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
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At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
