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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all… — Anna Quindlen
In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the… — Ralph Miller
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way… — Carlo Borromeo
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. — Cesar Chavez
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. — Frederick Buechner
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To… — Karl Pearson
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee. — Saint Augustine
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we… — Cesar Chavez
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it… — Charles Caleb Colton
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall… — Natalie Goldberg
Only through suffering can we find ourselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce

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