Anthony de Mello Quotes
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?
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The most difficult part is to convince a human being that in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being; that he is capable of becoming a glorious personality, a beautiful, peaceful angel.
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Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
