Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
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If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
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I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, 'His memory is going.'
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Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.
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The day for deception is over. The day for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth has come.
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Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.
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Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
