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“Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”

“One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.”

Differences Knowing Advantage Forty Realising

Book:Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker

Source: Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker

“We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.”

Sometimes Whole Knowing Groups Fit Advantage Our Time Who We Are Betterment

Author:Meryl Streep

“I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.”

People Knowing Taught Grew Grew Up Advantage Negative Presses Grandmother Rough Influential Mayors Albany

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”

Self Use Passion Knowing Subjects Advantage Humankind Preservation Deprived Brutes Self Preservation

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was to teach self-reliance. So I had the experience of relying on myself very early in life in order to have that knowing, because otherwise I would've just read about it. I think of it now as a great advantage that I had. It certainly taught me to rely upon myself at a very young age. And that's what I've been teaching since I was a little boy.”

“In the '90s, we are all our own gurus, offering truth to each other. My message is that we all have a truth inside of us that we must tell. The synchronicity of life is all about becoming clear, knowing what that truth is, watching and taking advantage of the opportunity to express that truth, and knowing how to present it.”

Life Is Opportunity Knowing Clear Becoming Truth Is Messages Advantage Offering Guru Synchronicity Taking Advantage

Author:James Redfield

“Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.”

Giving Moments Bigs Knowing Advantage Right Moment

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.”

Knows World Persons Care Today Next Water Can Do Knowing Air Advantage Competitive Advantage Knowing More

Author:Tony Wagner

“I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.”

Thinking Problem Today Knowing Photography Advantage Photographer Not Knowing

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.”

Worry Knowing Advantage Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Lorne Michaels

“In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.”

People Feels Kind I Can Hard Helping Together Artist Term Knowing Taken Sky Figures Advantage Saved Relate Pills Skeptical Taken Advantage

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."”

Knows Care Faces Actors Knowing Advantage Screens Wit Not Happy Liability

Author:William H. Macy