A Quotes
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“As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.”
Source: Gates Of Fire
“as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.”
Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household
“As all creative people, we have our optimistic side and a darker side. Yes, I would say that I am more optimistic than not. I have written some very lush pieces when I was at low ebb, and some highly energized pieces when carrying a great sadness. It seems that I am getting more optimistic as I get older - life is a lot of fun!”
“As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.”
“As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.”
“As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.”
“As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep when there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.”
“As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world that of effects, and as effects are the repositories of their causes, the natural world is the reflection of the spiritual. For this reason, from the beginning of things, the sun has stood out as a pre-eminent symbol of the things of God. Of all inanimate things it bears the closest correspondence to the Supreme Being, for what it is in the natural world the Supreme Being is in the Spiritual. Its central fire is the correspondence of the essence of the Divine Nature--DIVINE LOVE; its heat the correspondence of the heat flowing from Divine Love, which is Divine Goodness and all that that comprises; its light the correspondence of Divine Truth which is the light proceeding from Divine Wisdom; and the union of heat and light in its central essence forever symbolizes the union of the Divine Love and Wisdom resulting from that of the Divine Will and Understanding.
God is the SUN from whose heat and light--His Love and Wisdom--proceed all that is spiritual, and through the spiritual, by the medium of the natural sun, all that is natural. The sun is supreme in all natural things, and its operations run through all in its own world, but the Divine SUN from which it derives its origin is supreme in all and operates through all, above and below. And as the natural sun is everywhere present in its own realm, and all things derive their life and grow in more or less perfect measure according to their forms and distances, so is the Supreme One omnipresent, filling both the spiritual and the natural world.”
Source: The Philosophy of Ancient Britain
“As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.”
“As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.”
Source: Travel years
“As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.”
“As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).”
Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest
“As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.”
“As all the other beliefs and practices assume less and less religious a character, the individual becomes the object of a sort of religion. We carry on the worship of the dignity of the human person, which, like all strong acts of worship, has already acquired its superstitions.”
Source: The Division of Labor in Society
“As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.”
“As all things come from and are imbued with the quintessence of Spirit, all things are holy and alive in their own right—and anything that has a physical existence contains within it a unique personality, energy, and expression of Spirit.”
Source: Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation
“As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.”
“As all this suggests our relationship with evidence is seldom purely a cognitive one. Vilifying menstruating women bolstering anti-Muslim stereotypes murdering innocent citizens of Salem plainly evidence is almost always invariably a political social and moral issue as well. To take a particularly stark example consider the case of Albert Speer minister of armaments and war production during the Third Reich close friend to Adolf Hitler and highest-ranking Nazi official to ever express remorse for his actions. In his memoir Inside the Third Reich Speer candidly addressed his failure to look for evidence of what was happening around him. "I did not query a friend who told him not to visit Auschwitz I did not query Himmler I did not query Hitler " he wrote. "I did not speak with personal friends. I did not investigate for I did not want to know what was happening there... for fear of discovering something which might have made me turn away from my course. I had closed my eyes."
Judge William Stoughton of Salem Massachusetts became complicit in injustice and murder by accepting evidence that he should have ignored. Albert Speer became complicit by ignoring evidence he should have accepted. Together they show us some of the gravest possible consequences of mismanaging the data around us and the vital importance of learning to manage it better. It is possible to do this: like in the U.S. legal system we as individuals can develop a fairer and more consistent relationship to evidence over time. By indirection Speer himself shows us how to begin. I did not query he wrote. I did not speak. I did not investigate. I closed my eyes. This are sins of omission sins of passivity and they suggest correctly that if we want to improve our relationship with evidence we must take a more active role in how we think must in a sense take the reins of our own minds.
To do this we must query and speak and investigate and open our eyes. Specifically and crucially we must learn to actively combat our inductive biases: to deliberately seek out evidence that challenges our beliefs and to take seriously such evidence when we come across it.”
Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity.”
“As all true gamblers know, the moods of luck, whether bad or good, are as changeable as the winds. One moment she might be with you, guiding you gently toward some distant paradise you never hoped to see; the next, she could be battering you to death against the rocks. A successful gambler therefore, the old man had said, is not one on whom luck never turns her back, but rather one who knows the moment to take their fate back from her into their own hands.”
Source: Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore
“As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.”
Source: Thoughts
“As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.”
Source: The Power of the Spirit
“As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker
“as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.”
Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man
“As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.”
“As almas são suscetíveis ao sofrimento.
É por isso que eu enterro as memórias.
Vivê-las uma vez chegou. Revivê-las é um hábito destrutivo.
Mas enterrei as minhas memórias dele num caixão de vidro”
“As almas tem de reacender-se no raciocínio; e a fé há de emergir do cálculo. Virá um Buda experimentalista e dialéctico. Um Cristo virá, cujos prodígios sejam argumentos.”
Source: A Ideia de Deus
“As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.”
“As also noted by Morris, empirical data from various lineages of fish and amphibians have shown, for instance, that more plastic clades tend to be more
speciose than sister taxa of similar age but with less plasticity, due to a combination of greater opportunities to diversify and augmented evolvability of plastic features and thus of decreased risk of extinction. In addition, empirical studies show that
even populations that derive from ancestors that were particularly overspecialized for a certain, very specific way of life, including parasitism, have successfully
changed their behavior by becoming non-parasitic and displaying a morphology that is substantially different from that of their ancestors as seen for example in
lamprey evolution. Morris argued that random variations arising in a population may decrease plasticity and that the plastically changed phenotype
linked with the behavioral shift may be negatively affected. Therefore, these variants will be likely eliminated by selection, whereas variants that decrease plasticity in the direction of the plastic change will tend to be selected and spread through the population. This may lead to a situation in which the phenotype might appear similar across generations, but its plasticity is actually increasingly reduced until an environmental shift will no longer provoke phenotypic changes. As noted by Morris, Baldwin allowed for other non-mutually exclusive scenarios to occur, such as the rise of variants that increase plasticity in general, thus increasing the ‘fit’
between organisms and their environment and the degree to which evolution could be directed, thus leading to evolutionary trends.”
Source: Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends
“As Altan once told her, letting go doesn't mean forgetting someone. It means moving forward with their memory.”
Source: The Little Queen of Sheba
“As always, [Adam's] features intrigued Blue. They were not quite conventionally handsome, but they were interesting. He had the typical Henriette prominent cheekbones and deep-set eyes, but his version of them was more delicate. It made him seem a little alien. A little impenetrable.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“As always, anything touching on the mysteries had a quickening effect on him, like a drumbeat pulling at this pulse—at both his pulses, blood and spirit, the rhythms of his two hearts interwoven like the syncopation of two hands beating at different drums.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.”
Source: Desperation
“As always excuses come, always there is some kind of excuse.... So many excuses so far sound like, "Please get out..."!”
“As always happens, we thought we were very far from being happy then, and now we think the opposite. It's the trick of nostalgia, removing bitter moments from their place and painting them another color, and putting them back where they no longer hurt.”
Source: The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
“As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.”
“As always, I destroy everything around me. Even the dandelion that always seemed to be so full of life is slowly withering away… I might as well extinguish what remains of the sun by this point”
Source: The Timekeeper's Secret
“As always, I was pulled in by the small gesture. It was all that I knew about him, and it was perilous to me.”
Source: In the Cut
“As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.”
“As always in myth, women win their fame by dying.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“as always, relationship is everything, and the capacities of the left are essential for the expression of the right's vision. If we can find ways to support leading with the perspective of the right hemisphere, the left's capacities can then offer essential assistance from its storehouse of prior learning.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“As always, the dosas were perfect, crisp and lacy, and the unusual chef's addition of the habanero chutney made Naina's mouth burn in the best way. She'd inherited her ability to tolerate spice from her mother. Dr. Kohli was something of a wimp in this department, and so naturally Naina and her mother only ever ate the truly hot stuff when he wasn't around.
"Never make people feel bad when you're better at something than they are," her mother had said with an unfamiliar amount of glee one night at dinner when her husband had been on call and she'd made the potato bhujia with enough red chili powder to make even Naina and her break into a sweat.”
Source: The Emma Project