Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.
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I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.
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The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
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We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.
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The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.
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People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
