Condensed Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is…
— Aristotle
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you…
— Rajneesh
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The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you…
— Rajneesh
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It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a…
— Ascanio Sobrero
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For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, I will that a creature proceed from thee. Condense thyself.And the wind condensed itself, and…
— Marguerite Henry
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I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so…
— Imogen Poots
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With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is…
— John Pawson
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief,…
— Aberjhani
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One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals -…
— Marcellin Berthelot
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any…
— Donald Miller
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Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.
— Samuel Wilberforce
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Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
— Tryon Edwards
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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound…
— Tryon Edwards
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