Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
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Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
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Where there is unity there is always victory.
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Doubt everything. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.
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Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
