The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Big-time college ball is a business, and they work you to death. You're in the gym at 7 A. M., got classes… — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy,… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
You've just got to continue to prepare in the film room, continue to prepare running the game plan and doing everything on… — Ryan Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices,… — William Martin Copy Share Image
The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously… — Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Lawson Soulsby Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
They're implementing what was the strategy of Al Qaeda, which was to have attacks of different levels simultaneously. ... So the idea… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast. — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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