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115 Derives quotes by 105 unique authors
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One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit.…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror…
— Zhuangzi
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Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives…
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher.…
— B R Ambedkar
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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
— Stephen Gardiner
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Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.
— Dalai Lama
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The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after…
— Bruce Mau
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I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some…
— Alanis Morissette
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find…
— Nikola Tesla
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Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
— Zhuangzi
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A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.
— Aleksis Kivi
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Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.
— Joshua
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality…
— Chester Barnard
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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train…
— Michelle Huneven
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If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:…
— Albert Einstein
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like…
— Germaine Greer
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity…
— Paul Tsongas
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives…
— Rachel Kushner
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In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives…
— Steven Pressfield
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Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of…
— George Will
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We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All…
— Zelig Pliskin
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