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• People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, People, Mind

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• Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Wise, Sweet

  Louisa May Alcott (2000). “The Portable Louisa May Alcott”, p.389, Penguin

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• Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Reactions, Applause, Polite

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• I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Heart, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

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• For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.586, Delphi Classics

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• When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humility, Humble, Pride

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Pain, Eye, People

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Remember Me?”, p.425, Random House

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• Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Pain, Eye, Air

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• Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Acceptance

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.32, Multnomah

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• [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

  Frantz Fanon

  Thinking, Savages, Looks

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Character, Done, Facts

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Home, Uncomfortable Feeling

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Shoes, People

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.522, Macmillan

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• This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving, Upheaval, Revolution

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Book, Heart

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• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

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• People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Dignity, Badges

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.41, A&C Black

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• I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Greatness, Desire

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jan 28, 2014

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• I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

  Bill Parcells

  Confidence, Insightful, Like You

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• Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Faith, Real, Superstitions

  Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

  John Conyers

  Family, Children, Caring

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• Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Humor, Caring

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Tests, Communicate

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

  Bernard Crick

  Political, Doctrine, Politics

  Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.17, Bernard Crick

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