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“All peoples are more the same than they are different. We all mostly want the same things out of life, but those slight differences generate emotion, and emotion generates a sense of importance. Therefore, we come to perceive our differences as disproportionally more important than our similarities. And this is the true tragedy of man, that we are doomed to perpetual conflict over the slight difference.”
Source: Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.”
“All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.”
“All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.”
“All peoples of the world have the right to a homeland and the right to defend that homeland.”
Source: The Fall of Western Man
“All peoples think they are forever," he growled softly. "They do not believe they will ever not be. The Sinnissippi were that way. They did not think they would be eradicated. But that is what happened. Your people, Nest, believe this of themselves. They will survive forever, they think. Nothing can destroy them, can wipe them so completely from the earth and from history that all that will remain is their name and not even that will be known with certainty. They have such faith in their invulnerability.
Yet already their destruction begins. It comes upon them gradually, in little ways. Bit by bit their belief in themselves erodes. A growing cynicism pervades their lives. Small acts of kindness and charity are abandoned as pointless and somehow indicative of weakness. Little failures of behavior lead to bigger ones. It is not enough to ignore the discourtesies of others; discourtesies must be repaid in kind. Men are intolerant and judgmental . They are without grace. If one man proclaims that God has spoken to him, another quickly proclaims that his God is false. If the homeless cannot find shelter, then surely they are to blame for their condition. If the poor do not have jobs, then surely it is because they will not work. If sickness strikes down those whose lifestyle differs from our own, then surely they have brought it on themselves.
Look at your people, Nest Freemark. They abandon their old. They shun their sick. They cast off their children. They decry any who are different. They commit acts of unfaithfulness, betrayal, and depravity every day. They foster lies that undermine beliefs. Each small darkness breeds another. Each small incident of anger, bitterness, pettiness, and greed breeds others. A sense of futility consumes them. They feel helpless to effect even the smallest change. Their madness is of their own making, and yet they are powerless against it because they refuse to acknowledge its source. They are at war with themselves, but they do not begin to understand the nature of the battle being fought."
-pages 96-97”
Source: Running with the Demon
“All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.”
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective
“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”
Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
“All perception is a gamble.”
“All perception is colored by emotion.”
“All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“All perfection is melancholy.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All perishable is but an allegory.”
“All perishes, all decays, all is born again.”
Source: King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden
“All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.”
“All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
“All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.”
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.”
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.”
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.”
“All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.”
“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.”
“All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.”
“All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.”
“All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: "How are you affronted?" And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly.
— "The Question" from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand.”
“All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha
“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 past words and actions lie in light before us.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.”
“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir
“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.”
“All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.”
“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”
Source: Timequake
“All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.”
Source: Coincidance: A Head Test
“All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. all phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.”
“All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.”
“All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.”
Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga
“All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.”
“All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.”
“All philosophers are sick in the head.”
“All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.”
“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.”