David Fontana Quotes
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
Quotes to Explore
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
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Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.
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I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.
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Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
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It's difficult to sustain a growth rate like we've been seeing.
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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
