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Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an… — Ludwig von Mises
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' — Unknown Author
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R. S. Thomas
We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them. — Unknown Author
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,… — Unknown Author
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called… — Robert Browning
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with… — Plato
Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us… — Gottfried Leibniz
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as… — Gottfried Leibniz
That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never… — Rajneesh
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers… — Swami Vivekananda
...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is… — Benjamin Bloom
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always… — George Bernard Shaw
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we… — Alan Watts
It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now… — Unknown Author
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities. — Joseph Sobran
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But… — Earl Hamner, Jr.
How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider… — Watchman Nee
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera. — Trevor Nunn
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we… — Unknown Author
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. — Lee Konitz

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