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Misattributed quotes — Beverly Sills

1929–2007 United States

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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

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In youth, we run into difficulties. In old age, difficulties run into us.

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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Beverly Sills (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.