Practices Quotes
525 quotes by 442 authors
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There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always…
— Jimmy Smits
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Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
— Ian Somerhalder
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A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the…
— Lysander Spooner
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of…
— Gore Vidal
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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
— Paul Wellstone
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People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford…
— Julian Baggini
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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a…
— Confucius
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There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but…
— John Stuart Mill
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin…
— Graham Greene
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Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody…
— Tony Hoagland
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The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy…
— Tom Robbins
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
— Ram Dass
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My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
— Rajneesh
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Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people…
— Ram Dass
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We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the…
— Dan Brown
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One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
— Wendell Berry
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A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,…
— Michel Foucault
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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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