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We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act… — Pope Francis
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves… — Sri Chinmoy
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a… — Walter Bagehot
In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was… — Frederick Scott Oliver
So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever… — Eleanor Roosevelt
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset… — Henry L. Stimson
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't… — Haruki Murakami
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and… — Unknown Author
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of… — David Hume
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being… — Plato
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right… — Coretta Scott King
Each person is the universe from a particular perspective. — Morihei Ueshiba
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and… — Joseph Butler
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested… — Joseph Butler
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular… — Joseph Butler
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product;… — Edward Bernays
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their… — Julian Assange
The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain,… — Joseph Fischer
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends… — Benito Mussolini
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much… — Edward Sapir
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live… — Caleb Carr
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your… — Martin Seligman
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this… — Ngaio Marsh

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