When One Quotes

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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
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being. — Lokanatha Swami
And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane… — Michael Jackson
There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect,… — Jonathan Hale
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him.… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When one door opens, so does another one. — A.C.H. Smith
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego… — Ramakrishna
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is… — Louis T. Moore
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those… — Pope John Paul II
Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the… — Harun Yahya
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? — Greta Garbo
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing. — Joel Chandler Harris
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it… — Arnold Schoenberg
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here… — Carl Jung

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