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Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum… — Unknown Author
I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and,… — Olaudah Equiano
In the particular lies the universal. — James Victore
We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without… — James Davison Hunter
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your… — Zeena Schreck
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works… — Peter Greenaway
You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain. — Sam Altman
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and… — Gabriel Zaid
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything. — Sei Shonagon
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the… — Karen Armstrong
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of… — James Madison
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. — Byron Katie
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or… — David Hume
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe… — Alan Bennett
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at… — Henry Fielding
It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am… — Tom Hiddleston
I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member… — Dalai Lama
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face,… — Plutarch
As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us… — Thomas S. Monson
My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit of… — Dalai Lama
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are… — Eckhart Tolle
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that… — Julia Cameron
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the… — Julia Cameron
I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the… — Audre Lorde

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