Ultimate Quotes - Page 34

• Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

  Starhawk

  War, Expression, Punishment

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• No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Freedom, Practice

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• Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

  Joshua Fernandez

  Believe, Ideas, Definitions

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• All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Character, Erotic

  "Some Notes on Caravaggio". "Nimbus" Magazine, 1956.

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• The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

  James H. Austin

  Everyday, Messages, Moments

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.19, MIT Press

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Life, Order, Giving

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

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• It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

  Lisa Unger

  Thinking, Punishment, Too Late

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Beautiful Lies”, p.193, Random House

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• In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Christmas, Kings, Holiday

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House

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• suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Suicide, Defense, Lasts

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• the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  God, Religious, Having Fun

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.5, Paulist Press

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• The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

  Rod Serling

  Caring, Drawing, Feelings

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• Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

  Niger Innis

  Rights, America, Understanding

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• I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Powerful, Philosophy, Writing

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• Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

  Benjamin Graham

  Ignorance, Loss, Typical

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• I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

  Tucker Max

  Defense, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Zero, Government, Dollars

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• The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

  Byron Katie

  Important Relationships, Mind, Important

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

  James Carlos Blake

  Way, Violence, Truth Of Life

  Source: www.gq.com

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• suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

  Patricia Moyes

  Suicide, Revenge, Leaving

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• Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

  Martha Ostenso

  Death, Drawing, Independence

  Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd

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• Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

  Joy Browne

  Success, Selfishness, Want

  Joy Browne, M.D. (2010). “The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life (and the Eight Realities That Will Save You)”, p.184, Harmony

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• At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Heart, Ultimate Questions

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• The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Struggle, Mind, Enemy

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.203, Univ of California Press

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