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“As one unusually self-critical textile factory owner observed to me, reflecting on the system in which she played a nodal role, "There used to be a time when you could be a capitalist with personality. You could make your own decisions about what kind of ethos you wanted to create. Now it does not matter if you are a 'nice' person. It is completely irrelevant. We live in an age hen we all know what we do is disgusting but we still carry on doing it. The system we are part of feeds on desperation. And any system that demands such levels of desperation will produce more and more disorder, and the only way to keep everything in check will be the increasing militarisation of the world.”
Source: Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta (6-Mar-2014) Hardcover
“as one utilizes the findings of modern scholarship, one renews an essential characteristic of Jewish learning. Biblical exegesis in rabbinic and medieval Judaism has always focused on debate and variety….[T]he post-modern Jew revels in the diverse voices and counter-voices [discovered by critical Bible scholarship] so reminiscent of Talmudic and contemporary dialectic.
(from "The Scroll of Isaiah as Jewish Scripture, Or Why Jews Don't Read Books," in Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers)”
“As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.”
Source: The Nowhere City: A Novel
“As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design
I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
“As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.”
“As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.”
“As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.”
“As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.”
“As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.”
Source: The Paradiso
“As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.”
“As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.”
“as one who will continue to practice radical inclusiveness as I fail again and again, I can say it is quite a relief to embrace the limitations of being human.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“As one who wills, and then unwills his will,
Changing his mind with every changing whim,
Till all his best intentions come to nil,
So I stood havering in that moorland dim,
While through fond rifts of fancy oozed away
The first quick zest that filled me to the brim.”
Source: The divine comedy
“As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.”
“As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.”
“As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.”
Source: A Year of Living Prayerfully
“As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.”
“As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”
“As onerous as certain long-winded tasks are,
the key seems to always be the same--
just keep going,
just keep going,
one foot in front of the other,
one bag of garbage filled and out and then the next,
one box of important things carefully packed and sealed
and then another,
more, more,
just keep going,
one foot in front of
the other.
And then look what you've got:
a new home, a new life,
a new play, a production,
something you've knitted from fragments of dreams and ideas,
something you've woven from yarns and memories,
something you've written from yarns and images.
One foot more.”
“As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.”
“as only those who have been hurt and learned to trust again truly can be. It is as if once your heart has been broken you learn of the deepest reserves it carries.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.”
“As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.”
“As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."”
“As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.”
“As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.”
“As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.”
“As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century
“As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.”
“As Orion took a step closer, they wrapped their arms around each other in a miserable huddle.”
Source: Dreamless
“As Oscar tells to Chalky, eventually we all run out of road...”
“As Oscar Wilde put it, Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
No no, Oscar, darl: Experience is the name of the whole darn game.”
Source: This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.”
“As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat can bring out secrets; it can change people's personalities.”
“As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.”
“As other (previously lost) eyewitness accounts verifying Hitler’s and the Nazis’ detailed plans to annihilate the Jewish people are recovered by historians each passing decade, Holocaust deniers’ attempts to defend the Third Reich against accusations of genocide become more and more feeble. No, make that more and more laughable.”
Source: Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
“As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.”
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“As our awareness of the world and who we are increases, we will grow to replace our needs with service, fear with love and scarcity with abundance.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.”
“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.”
“As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.”
“As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
“As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970
“As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.”
“As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.”
“As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.”
Source: Democracy by the Ways of Democracy: Speeches of President Corazon C. Aquino, Official Visit to the United States of America September 15-24, 1986
“As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.”