Elizabeth Wein Quotes
It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.
Quotes to Explore
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
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My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
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I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.
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They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
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Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.
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Polite beggary is too common.
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I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
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Your wish is your command.
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet.
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As one southern-born antislavery activist later wrote, it was a “sad satire to call the States ‘United,’” because in one-half of the country slavery was basic to its way of life while in the other it was fading or already gone. The founding fathers tried to stitch these two nations together with no idea how long the stitching would hold.
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Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.
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It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.
