A Quotes
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“All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.”
Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield
“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”
“All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.”
Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust
“All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.”
“All merchant ships have load lines painted on both the port and starboard sides amidships. In most cases these markings are welded or etched into the steel plates of the hull to ensure that they not be altered. The allowable freeboard of vessels is measured between the lowest point of the uppermost continuous deck and the waterline. The purpose of the various load lines is to show the amount of freeboard the ship must have under various conditions. These load lines make it obvious for anyone to see if a ship has been overloaded. The waterline or load line is calculated and verified by a regulating classification society, recognized by the authorities at the vessels homeport, shown on the stern and accepted by the ships appropriate country of origin. This marking system was invented in 1876 by Samuel Plimsoll. A politician and social reformer, Plimsoll directed his efforts against what were known as "coffin ships." Unseaworthy and overloaded vessels were frequently heavily insured by unscrupulous owners, who risked the lives of the crew.”
“All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.”
“All metal is energized with wireless radio frequency radiation and smart people avoid prolonged contact with it.”
“All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.”
“All metaphors have an elastic limit, beyond which they begin to break down, and ultimately snap.”
“All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.”
“All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.”
“All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.”
“All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. I say remember, because you knew it already. And you know it still, but that knowledge is being repressed by the society.”
“All metrics are not for everyone.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“All middle men are bad.”
“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”
Source: The beauties and furies
“All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.”
“All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773
“All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.”
“All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.”
“All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.”
“All millionaires love a baked apple.”
“All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.”
“All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.”
Source: Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing: Easyread Edition
“All minds, except such as are delivered from doubt by dulness of sensibility, must be subject to this recurring conflict where the many-twisted conditions of life have forbidden the fulfilment of a bond. For in strictness there is no replacing of relations: the presence of the new does not nullify the failure and breach of the old. Life has lost its perfection: it has been maimed; and until the wounds are quite scarred, conscience continually casts backward, doubting glances.”
Source: Romola
“All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
“All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!”
“All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?”
Source: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic
“All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“All misery and pain come from attachment.”
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.”
“All mists curl off the roof of my being. That confidence I shall keep to my dying day. :ike a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he washes over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul. It was humiliating. I was turned to small stones.”
Source: The Waves
“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
“All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding.”
“All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.”
Source: Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses
“All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.”
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
Source: Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses
“All models are wrong; some models are useful.”
“All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under consideration, and the other is dynamics, describing the evolution in time of these forms.”
“All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions.”
“All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.”
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
“All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.”
Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes
“All modern painting is at once a language and a criticism of that language. A painting is a system of relations, values, and signs; each painting is an investigation and a critique of itself. Modern art is a critique of meaning and an attempt to show the reverse side of signs”
Source: Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature
“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.”
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.”
“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.”
Source: Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
“All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.”