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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown… — Mark Epstein
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is… — Joanna Macy
The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of… — Pope John Paul II
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to… — Elbridge Gerry
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of… — Pope Benedict XVI
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather,… — Pope Benedict XVI
What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare… — Cesar Milstein
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely… — Unknown Author
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the… — Elliott Chaze
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things… — Gerald Holton
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are… — Arianna Huffington
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. — Oscar Wilde
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science… — Charles Kingsley
Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail. — John C. Maxwell
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in… — Eugene H. Peterson
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty… — Lysander Spooner
I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their… — Peter Cosgrove

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