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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that… — Dalai Lama
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it… — Suzanne Segal
The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling… — David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke
If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after… — Justin Martyr
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. — Aristotle
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since with equal clarity He asserted:… — Cyril of Jerusalem
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected… — Theodor Boveri
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila. — Alfred Sturtevant
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil… — Chen-Ning Yang
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and… — Rei Kawakubo
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… — Virginia Woolf
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and… — Lewis Mumford
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth… — Mahatma Gandhi
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the… — Pope John Paul II

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