A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“No personality (prakruti) is a waste, but you have to discover what it is useful for. You do not have to keep… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
“No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would… — James Adams Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new;… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“The Self (Atma) has infinite energy, similarly the energy of the non-Self complex (pudgal) is also infinite. It is through the energy… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate that you don't have the insight. I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out. I hate that you… — Cho Gun-woo Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
“Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and be sincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“The self is configured in ways that both reflect and influence the very foundations of social life and everyday living. Without the… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
“Scriptural knowledge is achetan (inanimate; lifeless), nevertheless it still it takes one towards chetan (animate, the eternal pure Soul). And Gnani’s [the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory"… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
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