Underlying Quotes
305 quotes by 272 authors
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
— Karen Armstrong
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by…
— Annie Besant
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it…
— Jo Brand
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Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to…
— John O. Brennan
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require…
— Vince Cable
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront…
— Ajahn Brahm
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The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of…
— Geoffrey Jellicoe
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
— Hu Shih
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It…
— Niels Bohr
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The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model…
— Alexander Calder
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Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show…
— Meher Baba
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One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story…
— Albert Allen Bartlett
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Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's…
— Hugh McCutcheon
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