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“Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love.”
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“Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.”
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“We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is dependent on science and progress, it's not less dependent on the way we treat each other.”
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“I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.”
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“I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.”
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“That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative, empathetic effort to see the world the way someone whose experiences remote from yours might see it. Not every writer works that way; some writers make a wonderful career out of writing books that adhere very closely to how they view the world. The further I go with this, the more interested I get in trying to imagine my way into other perspectives that at first seem foreign to me.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.”
Source : "The flower and the glory". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.
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“"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?”
Source : "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".