Intrinsic Quotes
216 Intrinsic quotes by 169 unique authors
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A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
— Charles Colson
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You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this…
— Will Self
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. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives,…
— Maurice Sendak
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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are…
— Sharon Salzberg
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You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can…
— Tara Brach
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Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
— Tom Clancy
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To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that…
— Benjamin Peirce
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The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the…
— Gardiner Spring
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We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so…
— Wangari Maathai
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent…
— Mamie Van Doren
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We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
— Wangari Maathai
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In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They…
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
— Joan Didion
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Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
— Tod Machover
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In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is…
— Dennis Prager
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I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.
— Mike Huckabee
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
— John Updike
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For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
— John Updike
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The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is…
— David Belle
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The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which…
— Mike Huckabee
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There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the…
— Gioconda Belli
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Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth…
— Sydney Madwed
Who Wrote These Intrinsic Quotes
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