In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that,… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature. — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
