Dictates Quotes
209 quotes by 185 authors
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts…
— John Adams
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Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
— Mario Batali
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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.
— Sheng-yen
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God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the…
— John D. Rockefeller
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I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,…
— George Washington
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
— George Washington
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of…
— Joseph Story
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Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you…
— Charles Barkley
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Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the…
— Bill Bradley
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at…
— Thomas Huxley
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance…
— Margaret Mead
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Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt…
— Ronald Reagan
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Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when…
— Gwen Moore
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all…
— George Washington
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True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
— Matthieu Ricard
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Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.
— Jane Frances de Chantal
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