Thereby Quotes
463 Thereby quotes by 362 unique authors
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified…
— John Flavel
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always…
— Boris Pasternak
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,…
— C. Wright Mills
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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really…
— Gautama Buddha
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what…
— Gautama Buddha
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The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
— Socrates
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If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth,…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any significant reduction in…
— Jay H. Lehr
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When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end…
— Unknown Author
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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The…
— Unknown Author
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Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on…
— Thomas A. Edison
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It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace…
— Pope Leo X
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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
— Jonathan Haidt
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And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more…
— Jonathan Haidt
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