Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.
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My career's consisted of all of those things that you hope would one day lead to being a series regular, and then your dreams grow from there. My career has been very steady, and I've been blessed in that I've been given everything that I can handle, at the right time.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.
