Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I don't really think, I just walk.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.
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Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
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You've got to listen to your guests.
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We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
