Practice Quotes

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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur
Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed. — Dalai Lama
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut… — Pietro Aretino
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in… — Sri Aurobindo
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but… — Nikola Tesla
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's… — Russell Simmons
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite… — Henry David Thoreau
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the… — Marlo Morgan
If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are… — T. Harv Eker
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of… — George Washington
Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and… — Rumi
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice. — William Lloyd Garrison
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,… — Robert Kennedy
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations. — Marcello Malpighi
'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
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius. — Jean de la Bruyere
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but… — Karl Popper

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