Ella Winter famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.
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even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.
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was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?
-- Ella Winter
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
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You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
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We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?
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We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.
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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
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Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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