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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an… — Boyd K. Packer
I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is the flow of… — Gabriel Cousens
I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support. — Jean-Claude Juncker
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there,… — Evangelista Torricelli
The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is… — Linda Gordon
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral… — Viktor E. Frankl
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide… — Samuel Johnson
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are… — Emile Durkheim
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in… — Edvard Munch
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external… — Nikola Tesla
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not… — Nikola Tesla
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important.… — Chris Argyris
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal… — Harry S. Truman
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness… — Sigmund Freud

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