Quotes 5641 till 5660 of 11281.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.
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Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
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Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.
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Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
The facts: a novelist's autobiography (1989) -
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Animal Dreams -
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
On War (1832) -
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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