A Quotes
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“Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.”
Source: Home, where life makes up its mind
“Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.”
“Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.”
“Any immigrants found guilty of serious crime – rape, murder, violent gang membership – should be sent straight back to their country of origin.
That ought to act as a deterrent. If they choose to bite the hand that feeds them, then they can fuck off. We don’t need people like that in this country.”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.”
“Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. First, the subjects of deepest dread (corruption, decay, pollution, anomie, weakness) are identified with the disease. The disease itself becomes a metaphor. Then, in the name of the disease (that is, using it as a metaphor), that horror is imposed on other things. The disease becomes adjectival. Something is said to be disease-like, meaning that it is disgusting or ugly.”
Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.”
Source: Illness as metaphor
“Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic.”
“Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.”
Source: The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms
“Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.”
“Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.”
“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.”
Source: A New Philosophy of Life
“Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.”
“Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.”
“Any individual exhibiting a personal instability comparable to the economic and social instability of capitalism would long ago have been required to seek professional help and to make basic changes.”
Source: Understanding Marxism
“Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.”
“Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.”
“Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper. All creativity, growth, imagination, nurturing - All possibilities are born within the female womb of the Devine Feminine. To deny Her a rightful place, either within ourselves or in the world in which we live, is to do irreparable harm and endure the loss of countless joys.”
“Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanity.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“Any individual who practices perseverance, even in the face of death, will not be in any debt to relatives or gods or father or mother. Furthermore, any individual who does his duty like a man, will enjoy Ultimate Peace in the future.”
Source: The Story of Mahajanaka
“Any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.”
“Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.”
“Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing.”
“Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”
“Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.”
Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Any initial oceans before the Flood were likely much more shallow with a few deep areas. Keep in mind that about 95 percent of all fossils are from shallow marine organism — so this makes sense. Our current post-Flood oceanography has some areas that are shallow, but most is quite deep. Consider that oceans cover about 70 percent of the earth surface today. At one point the whole earth was covered with the Floodwater. It was very kind of the Lord to give us 30 percent of land surface back.”
Source: A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter
“Any injustice demands something of us. But the only thing more healing than forcing someone to pay is when a person chooses to pay by their own conviction.
I have always wondered why Christ had to die. If we needed saving, if wrath was to be had, couldn't God just snap his fingers or send a great wind or blink and have everything wrong made right again? Why is it nothing but the blood? Nothing else? This will always be strange to me.
But if it's true, the law is cosmic and eternal. Maybe it's written into everything, and even God themself is not too bold to undo the way things were meant to be. Maybe they needed to show us what the most tragic and noble reparation could look like, the sacrifice of life itself, so we might learn the courage to choose to make repairs when our moments come.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!”
“Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.”
“Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.”
“Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.”
“Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.”
“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”
“Any instructions?” Carpenter said. “Yeah,” Shane said. “Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don’t like. I’m getting tired of this shi*.” “Somebody needs a hug,” Carpenter said. “Humor,” Shane said. “Har.”
Source: Agnes and the Hitman
“Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.”
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
“Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
“Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.”
Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly
“Any intense relationship, be it of love or hate, displaces you from your body-mind. Everything becomes about that person. When they are gone, you feel lost.”
“Any intensely lived emotion simply liberates us from those very emotions.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Any investment is risky as long as you’ve never done any research.”
“Any irony intended proved words wasted, for they were drowned in Isabella’s rapacity.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.”
“Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.”
“Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story.”