Otherwise Quotes
2652 Otherwise quotes by 1879 unique authors
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Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to…
— Rajneesh
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Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender it to the…
— Rajneesh
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all…
— Seneca the Younger
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We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater…
— Steve Pavlina
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by…
— Algernon Sidney
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I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms…
— Harry Browne
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The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the…
— Walter Lippmann
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The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.…
— Anthony de Mello
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In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others…
— J C Ryle
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in…
— Amartya Sen
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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.
— Immanuel Kant
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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