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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I… — Wilferd Peterson
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage. — Baron de Montesquieu
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. — David Kay
What's recommended is that if you have a good experience, don't get too excited. And if you have a bad experience, don't mistake it for… — Thrangu Rinpoche
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly… — Earnest Hooton
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a… — Steve Lawson
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal… — David James Duncan
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary… — Kazuo Ishiguro
It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At… — John F. Kennedy
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for… — Jane Austen
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other… — Benjamin Franklin
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh… — Andrew Weil
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers,… — Tim Holden
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. — George Washington
Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended. — Elie Wiesel
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In… — Jo Nesbo
I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact… — Daniel H. Wilson

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