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Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be — Tony Robbins
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This… — Eckhart Tolle
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that… — Elaine Dundy
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila… — Khaled Hosseini
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was… — Virginia Woolf
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not… — R. Scott Bakker
Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are… — Christopher Hitchens
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's… — Albert Einstein
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family… — Bell Hooks
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. — Ayn Rand
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the… — Frank Herbert
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, itâ€™s often the case that one is hated precisely because one… — Adrian Tan
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born — Antonio Gramsci
The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can… — Martin Heidegger
You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend.… — Cassandra Clare
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores… — Marilynne Robinson

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