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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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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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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We made 'Shutterbugs' and 'The Illusionators' to play live at UCB.
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For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence.
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The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
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The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.
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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
