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Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to every individual -… — Rajneesh
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to… — Philip Neri
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time… — Ronald Reagan
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. — William James
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be… — Heraclitus
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… — Samuel Johnson
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care… — Lysander Spooner
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to… — George Will
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying… — Thomas Kuhn
I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national… — Steven Chu
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. — Francis Bacon
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see… — Charles Spurgeon

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