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Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
I can contribute, be valuable and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.
They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.
There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.
I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.
An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.
The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.
The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!
Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.
I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.
My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.
There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.
Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.
The center of our economic revival we'll be fixing our really horrendous, one-way street, horrible trade deals.
If we play hard and we compete, we match up with any team. I feel like we have the personnel to go all the way.
There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.
There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.
Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
The only way to always be relevant is to focus on what's eternal. Everything in style will soon be out of style.
Everyone must live, and everyone must express themselves, and must express themselves in the way of their karma.
The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.
Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do.
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.
I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.