Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument…
— Francis Collins
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Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.
— Chuck Hogan
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When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you…
— Curtis Jackson
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Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with…
— Maria Montessori
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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
— Paulo Freire
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Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or…
— Alexa Chung
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Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.
— David Jeremiah
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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide…
— Bruce Sterling
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Going to the school to meet the visually impaired was special. I thought I was inspiring them. I was thinking what I could possibly say…
— Yanni
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What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own…
— Glenn Hughes
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But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a…
— Matt Labash
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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the…
— Bill Klem
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And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh;…
— Isaac Williams
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept…
— Norton Juster
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When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to…
— Gary Zukav
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The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge,…
— Tucker Max
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as…
— Vernon Howard
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
— Robert Smithson
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In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as…
— Werner Erhard
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Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would…
— Jacque Fresco
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