![My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-music-is-not-for-everyone-its-only-for-the-stong-willed-the-street-soldie.jpg)
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spiritual ego want
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual conscious
Become conscious of being conscious.
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The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
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spiritual thinking joy
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
spiritual self ego
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spiritual art technology
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party two-sides middle
If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party. Bashar al-Assad
party believe past
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past. Diane Abbott
party church maintaining
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State. Elihu Root
party people promise
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. Edward Snowden
party doe republican
The Republican Party does not reach out. Charles Evers
party scotland church
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented. Edward Irving
party said physicist
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The Republican Party is not treating me right, and they're not treating the people that I represent right. Donald Trump
means simply system
A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work. Rodney Lovell
means thank
Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me. Kelly Clarkson
mean fighting winning
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mean laughing evil
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. Ayn Rand
mean men support
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mean thinking way
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mean enemy religion
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
mean evil effort
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