Marcel Proust Quotes
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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I'm just an American dream.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
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It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
