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• Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Life, Running, Law

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.51

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• For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Wealth

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Ninety-six Sermons”, p.36

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• Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.

  Lisa Randall

  Faith, Nice, Believe

  "The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall". Interview with Corey S. Powell, discovermagazine.com. July 29, 2006.

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Idols, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

  Joan Robinson

  Fall, Doe, Wages

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.89, Springer

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• If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

  Kirby Larson

  Would Be, Problem, Bigs

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• In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.

  Marina Abramovic

  Beautiful, Ideas, Looks

  "Once Upon A Time" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 7, 2012.

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• If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

  Marina Abramovic

  Crush, Women, Play

  "Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" By Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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• If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Song, Strong, Women

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Moving, Ill Will

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• I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Responsibility, Self, Order

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• If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sex, Children, Rhythm Of Life

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

  James Alan Gardner

  Leadership, Stupid, Play

  James Alan Gardner (2017). “The League of Peoples Books 1–3: Expendable, Commitment Hour, and Vigilant”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.

  Richard Laymon

  Book, Years, Ifs And

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• Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

  Joan Robinson

  Sheep, Giving, Hatred

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer

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• If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

  Bai Juyi

  Dream, Fleeting World, Long

  Bai Juyi, “At The End Of Spring”

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• The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.

  William Batchelder Greene

  God, Character, Exercise

  William Batchelder Greene, Jakob Böhme, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1849). “Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography”, p.35

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• Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

  Joan Robinson

  Law, Progress, Details

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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• Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

  Joan Robinson

  Running, Lying, Overcoming

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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• Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Editing, Objectivity, Subjective

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 150), 1986.

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• I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Powerful, War, Women

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• Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

  Steve Symms

  Rights, Regulation, Conflict

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• We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!

  Walter Wykes

  Life, What If, Way To Live

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• People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Sex, Winter, Night

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

  Pat Condell

  Wise, Dancing, Catholic

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"What Have I Got Against Religion?", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2007.

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