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We gain internal freedom through external actions. — Ram Dass
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk… — Alexander Hamilton
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external… — William Godwin
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail… — Oswald Chambers
You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external… — Wallace D. Wattles
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things… — Daniel Roberts
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their… — Aristotle
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually… — Joshua Foer
Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness. — Kalki Bhagavan
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working… — Douglas MacArthur
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties.… — Hugh Prather
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. — Jonathan Haidt
Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can… — Petra Kelly
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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