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"My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time."
"Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that."
"Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!"
"Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds."
"Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering."
"Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out"
"Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free."
"Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance."
"Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands."
"Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold."
"When something weighs on your conscience, give it up."
"It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells."
"I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return, Of giving, when I have nothing, Of working happily, even in the midst of difficulties, Of holding out my hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned, Of drying my tears, even while I weep, Of believing, even when no one believes in me."
"The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter."
"The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself."
"My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates."
"The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give."
"Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there."
"There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word."
"A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement."
