George William Russell Quotes
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
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I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.
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I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
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One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.
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Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.
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Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
