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“As people gradually stopped thinking of suffering as a threat, Buddhist cosmology, which had been constructed on the terror of suffering, steadily lost its connection to everyday reality. What had originally been a living belief turned into myth.”
Source: Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins
“As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]”
Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
“As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.”
“As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.”
“As people like sharing pieces of their history, let us listen to how they speak, what they say, but precisely what they “mean.” By diving under the surface of their words and following the sound of their intonation, we can get to the bones of their story and, at the same time, a better understanding of oneself. ("Everybody his story" )”
“As people live longer, disability becomes more of an issue. And there seems to be more children born with a disability. I don't know if it's true, or if we're just better at diagnosing certain disabilities than in the past.”
“As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.”
“As people seek to improve their living environment, there will be continuous demand for residential property. Investment in real estate market should have reasonable prospects in the long run.”
“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.”
“As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.”
“As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.”
“As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.”
“As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.”
“As people wash and change dress for hygiene and freshness; similarly, one can clean and purify its tongue with truth and beautify with honesty; indeed, it fragrances fragrance.”
“As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.”
“As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.”
“As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.”
“As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.”
“As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.”
“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.”
“As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.”
“As pequenas empresas são a base da economia, proporcionando quase metade do emprego de todo o setor privado. Os decisores políticos têm de compreender o papel das plataformas que trazem as pequenas empresas para o século XXI, avaliar o seu impacto económico e elaborar políticas fiscais para encorajar a criação de um valor económico mais amplo e não apenas o valor que as empresas extraem para si próprias.”
Source: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“As per monotheistic religions, Allah, the Supreme Being, created all living and non-living things in the universe. This universe had a beginning and this is a fact which is endorsed by physics. This universe cannot be its own creator since it began to exist at some point in time. It cannot create itself into existence while being in existence already at the same time. As part of the cosmos, are we our own creators? James Clarke Maxwell who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation is quoted to have said: “Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent, it must have been created.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.”
“As per the divine consciousness, the fate of a lunatic or one who is mentally or physically challenged is more lucky and destined than the royal family.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“As per the faith of Islam, human beings are created for a test by Allah and we live in His universe under finely tuned life-supporting systems. Our success in this test depends on moral excellence in matters involving free will. The nature of the test examines human actions made with free will. The wish to see absolute justice around us and to achieve everlasting happiness would be possible in afterlife provided we use our free will in choosing moral actions in this life. Success in this test is possible even for those who suffered injustice throughout their lives. Failure is also possible for the richest, powerful and outlaws who nonetheless might be able to evade law enforcement all their lives in this world.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“As per the Indian philosophy of the Upanishads, the source of evil is one’s ego-sense –Ahankara—which differentiates oneself from the other selves. A person, who visualizes himself independent of others, tries to guard or please himself at the cost of others. Evil is thus the tendency of a person to live a life that is not ‘in harmony’ with the rest of the world, but ‘in opposition’ to it or at best ‘in indifference’ to it. The good is to discover the unity in the diversity of ‘all selves’ and beings. Once unity in diversity is realized, every being becomes our own self and good deeds follow automatically”
Source: Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
“As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.”
“As per the terrorist narrative, the story of autism is told as a kind of 'spreading' pathology, infiltrating normative populations .. Knowing no borders or barriers, autism is framed as .. infiltrating homes, moving next door, and hiding in otherwise normative bodies. Figures of terror, in Bush's words, 'hide in the shadows' (Bush, 2001). Says the voice of autism in Cuaron's film [I am Autism]: they are 'invisible until it's too late' (Cuaron, 2009).”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“As per the traditions of quantum mechanics, it is the physical act of observation itself that leverages the momentum of a vehicle into a dimension purely orthogonal to the ordinary four (4) of space-time, a new fifth (5th) dimension that is measured in units of spectral flux. I call it the Exit Engine.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.”
Source: Lirael
“As per your request, all the chocolate we have on offer."
There were pandan cheesecake brownies, red bean brownies, ube chocolate chip cookies, ube Oreo mochi Rice Krispie treats, brown butter chai chocolate chip cookies, Mexican hot chocolate cookies, and a champorado parfait, the last of which was still in the experimental phase. I didn't usually make so many chocolate offerings in one day, but I guess subconsciously I felt the need for chocolaty comfort as much as Marcus did.”
Source: Murder and Mamon
“As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian and functional. Rather they represent a natural surplus of imaginative abundance that may confound or reinforce the way we perceive the world, but which never does so in a simple way. Even though they may have no direct social use, they nonetheless embody the actual state of real relations between people.”
Source: Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
“As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“As personagens são como vampiros, cravam os caninos na nossa jugular e quando amanhece, voltam aos seus sepulcros até que anoiteça de novo. O fim do livro seria a pedra que ponho sobre esses visitantes. Definitivamente? Não. Um dia, de repente, com outro nome e outras feições e em outro tempo volta mascarada a mesma personagem, elas gostam da vida. Como nós.”
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder.”
Source: All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses for Our Time
“As pesquisas', diz [Revel], 'dão o seguinte resultado: à pergunta sobre em quem votarão, 53 por cento dos entrevistados responderam que votarão com a esquerda. Quando perguntados sobre quem vencerá, 54 por cento responderam: a direita. Eis a França dita cartesiana. Se lhes perguntassem se acreditam em Deus, 70 por cento responderiam que não. Mas, se lhes fosse perguntado se crêem que Jesus seja o filho de Deus, 80 por cento responderiam que sim.”
Source: I conti con me stesso. Diari 1957-1978
“As pessoas acham que os escritores escrevem para os leitores. Elas não se dão conta de como é terapêutico vomitar as memórias, sonhos e ideias fixadas em nossos subconscientes.”
Source: Escrita Maldita
“As pessoas acima dos sete e abaixo dos setenta não são nada confiáveis, a menos que sejam gatos.”
Source: The Hearing Trumpet
“As pessoas associam que viver intensamente era sinônimo de encarar aventuras e fazer o que tem vontade, mas, para mim, viver intensamente era aprender aos poucos e com coragem a se amar em um mundo que fazia questão que nos odiássemos.”
Source: 13 Segundos
“As pessoas creem perseguir as estrelas e acabam como peixes-vermelhos num aquário. Fico pensando se não seria mais simples ensinar desde o início ás crianças que a vida é absurda. Isso privaria a infância de alguns bons momentos, mas faria o adulto ganhar um tempo considerável - sem falar que, pelo menos, seríamos poupados de um traumatismo, o do aquário.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“As pessoas de Madison County não falavam assim, sobre aquelas coisas. Falavam sobre o tempo, sobre os produtos agrícolas, dos recém-nascidos e dos enterros, dos programas do Governo e das equipas desportivas. Não da arte e dos sonhos. Não das realidades que silenciavam a música, e encerravam os sonhos dentro de uma caixa.”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“As pessoas de repente sabem como usar o dinheiro depois de terem gasto tudo”
Source: A Grande Pérola da Sabedoria
“as pessoas dizem que gostam de novidade, patati patatá, mas na verdade, verdade verdadinha, gostam de tudo menos de aventura. Entre a liberdade e a segurançazinha, por muito que digam que preferem a outra.”
Source: Cititorul din pestera
“As pessoas do mundo da restauração podem gostar ou não gostar do que vou contar, mas saberão muito bem que não estarei a mentir.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“As pessoas em sua santa sapiência
Muitas vezes julgam pela aparencia.
Pensam ser frieza o sangue quente
Destilado sutilmente ao ser valente.
Que de certa força de benevolencia
Transmuta e forja em cetta essência
O sofrimento que, apesar de latente,
Não transmite, para acalmar a gente.”
Source: Amor de Pierrot
“As pessoas geralmente não deixam a própria casa voluntariamente. Só a pobreza ou o amor fazem com que fujam assim às pressas.”
“As pessoas grandes aconselharam-me a deixar de lado os desenhos de jiboias abertas ou fechadas e a dedicar-me de preferência à geografia, à história, à matemática, à gramática. Foi assim que abandonei, aos seis anos, uma promissora carreira de pintor. Fora desencorajado pelo insucesso do meu desenho número 1 e do meu desenho número 2. As pessoas grandes não compreendem nada sozinhas, e e´cansativo, para as crianças, ficar toda hora explicando...”
Source: O Pequeno Principe
“As pessoas mais felizes são aqueles que ainda não são nascidos, mas eles teimosamente querem nascer e provar que eu estava certo o tempo todo”
Source: Grande Perle de la Sagesse
“As pessoas não conseguem ver além de si mesmas. Não podem sair de si mesmas tempo suficiente para ver que sua linha de resistência máxima não é, necessariamente, a linha de resistência de todo mundo. Fazem do próprio conjunto de desejos, gostos e desgostos uma escala para medir os desejos, gostos e desgostos de todas as criaturas.”
Source: The Cruise of the Snark