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The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest… — D. H. Lawrence
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as… — Jay E. Adams
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic… — Justus von Liebig
The new build will play a vital role in the £1billion regeneration project at Longbridge, providing a strong educational element to the employment led mixed-use… — Karren Brady
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. — Joan Erikson
The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude. — Phil Mahre
When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital. — Nachman of Breslov
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth. — Grace Aguilar
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we… — Peter Corning
The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed… — Robert Mayer
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which… — Unknown Author
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given… — Robert Mayer
There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives… — William Thomas Councilman
The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he… — Corinne Heline
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist… — Pope John Paul II
The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for… — Norman Cousins
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane
Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital… — Robert Sternberg
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness. — John F. Kennedy
Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to… — Emma Thompson
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn

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