Point Quotes
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The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.
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The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we had known. Well, we do know now. But what are we doing? Maybe a poet like Lowell brought America a little nearer to its boiling point.
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Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
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I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
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It was all right. It's a starting point. You can find out where you are and where you need to address things.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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If people can be bothered to organise a demo, write songs, paint signs, and march through the streets holding those signs and singing those songs, outraged, you can be pretty sure they’ll have a valid point.
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I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.
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But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
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Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.
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I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.
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I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.
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There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.
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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.
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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.
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By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange. People would always assume I'd be into like more modern R&B, which is a stereotype, but that was kind of what was expected. And I had all these guitar magazines of all these musicians that didn't look like me. So I assumed Jimmi Hendrix was one of those.
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In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.
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I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point
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I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
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Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'
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I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
