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Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists.… — Chogyam Trungpa
I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life? — Brandon Boyd
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… — Gaston Bachelard
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. — Auguste Comte
One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English… — Joseph Goebbels
The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the… — Joseph Goebbels
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and… — Thomas Merton
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent… — Michael Pollan
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same… — Rudolf Steiner
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy.… — Elon Musk
Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy. — Tony Hsieh
I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. — Tony Abbott
If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle… — George Whitefield
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning… — Jacques Rivette
I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems. — Rick Scott
We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important… — C. J. Mahaney
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and… — Arthur Koestler
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. — Marcus Aurelius
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I… — David Tudor

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