Quotes 41 till 60 of 91.
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton p. 37 -
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Secrets find a way out in sleep... It is the place where there is no pretense.
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She wants to express herself - to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
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The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
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