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One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs — David Hilbert
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire. — Swizz Beatz
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It… — Lawrence Lessig
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to… — Robert Greene
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into… — Robert Greene
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure… — Alan Keyes
I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play… — Amy Schumer
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C.S. Lewis
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order… — Diana Ross
I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together. — Jackie Chan
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more… — Frans de Waal
I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. — Thomas Carlyle
The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with… — Truman G. Madsen
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our… — E. O. Wilson
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a… — Sharon Salzberg
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge

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