Ken Wilber Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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I'm not really a green juice kind of guy. I like feeling downtrodden and worthless when I walk around London and have someone click their tongue at me and tell me to speed up.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
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Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. - 1940-1943
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The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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I think I was a born scientist.
