Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.
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It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
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It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
