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. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and your mind will… — Ilchi Lee
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely. — Alan Lightman
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good.… — Peter McWilliams
Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as… — Phil Dusenberry
Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would… — Alan Cohen
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control.… — Eckhart Tolle
One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is… — Steven Dietz
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything… — Paul Valery
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… — Joseph Brodsky
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. — Bill Maher
It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.… — Albert Einstein
I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was. — Mitt Romney
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on… — Herman Melville
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. — Reinhold Niebuhr
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom." — Friedrich Nietzsche
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a… — Stephen Jay Gould
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they… — Karl Popper

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