A Quotes
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“As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.”
“As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.”
“As we have lost our identity as members of traditional communities, [...] we have found new identities of sharing grievance.
We are now united by being victims of everything from racism and sexism to "looks-ism" and "size-ism" to being adult children of alcoholics. America has become one huge circle in which everyone is pointing the finger of blame at someone else.”
Source: Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship
“As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.”
“As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.”
Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“As we have said before, for religious man nature is never only natural. Experience of a radically desacralized nature is a recent discovery; moreover, it is an experience accessible only to a minority in modem societies, especially to scientists. For others, nature still exhibits a charm, a mystery, a majesty in which it is possible to decipher traces of ancient religious values. No modern man, however irreligious, is entirely insensible to the charms of nature. We refer not only to the esthetic, recreational, or hygienic values attributed to nature, but also to a confused and almost indefinable feeling, in which, however, it is possible to recognize the memory of a debased religious experience.”
Source: The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
“As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.”
“As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.”
“As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people.”
“As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.”
Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler
“As we have seen so often in this book, religion may begin with mystical experiences but it always leads to politics. It starts with the voice heard by the prophets who are its chosen instruments. And what they hear always leads to actions that affect the way people live: with politics. Sometimes the politics are bad. People are persecuted for following the wrong faith or for listening to the wrong voice. Or they are forced to embrace the message announced by the latest hot prophet. So the history of religion becomes a study in different forms of oppression. But sometimes the politics are good. They are about liberation, not oppression. We saw good politics in the stand the Pennsylvanian Quakers made against slavery in 1688. And in the African American Church today the politics of Christianity are still about liberation. The tactics of Moses and the promises of Jesus are used to make the world a better place. Religion is no longer used as an opiate to dull the pain of injustice and inequality but as a stimulant to overcome it. That’s what keeps many people in the religion game.”
Source: A Little History of Religion
“As we have seen, the conceptual frameworks through which we comprehend reality are necessarily partial; and although not all propositions capture truth in equal measure, or are true at all, many of them may incorporate kernels of truth, offer suggestive perspectives, and illuminate reality from neglected angles.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“As we have seen, the establishment of the early state and the beginning of archaic society destroyed the uneasy egalitarianism of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years of hominin evolution, but in so doing made possible much larger and more complex societies. A dramatic symbolism that combined with social power, enacted in entirely new forms of ritual, involving, centrally, sacrifice -even human sacrifice- as a concrete expression of radical status difference.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“As we have seen, the geographical reality is that the overwhelming majority of the world's refugees are in countries that neighbour conflict and crisis. These 'countries of first asylum' in developing regions today host 86 per cent of all refugees, up from 72 per cent a decade ago. In consequence, it is the countries with the least capacity to host refugees that bear the greatest responsibility.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939
“As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.”
Source: Experimental psychology, and other essays
“As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.”
Source: Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence
“As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.”
“As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.”
“As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.”
“As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.”
“As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.”
“As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.”
“As we heal, the need for more healing becomes apparent to us. It is painful, but healing makes us better perceivers of what is still hurting.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.”
“As we held tightly to one another, like two lost ships on a sea of confusion, I breathed in the guy I've grown to care for so very much.”
Source: I Stand Before You
“As we help others with their challenges, we are faced with our own. Keep helping anyway.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.”
“As we hit the ground I wanna be smiling Happily Hades-bound If this plane goes down”
“As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.”
“As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul.”
“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.”
“As we inhale soothing wellbeing through the radiant glow of an unsuspected lighthouse in the dark stormy nights of our life, we can come to feel the exhilarating rhythm of our heartbeat, finding compassion with ourselves and at one time reaching out to all the others. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")”
“As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important.”
“As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.”
“As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.”
“As we journey along the narrow way we are often taught how to balance God and our life but in the true walk with God, He is not to be balanced in our life but in control of our life! Matthew 22:37!”
“As we journey through life, the truths we thought were fixed often shift. The gift is learning to move gracefully with them.”
“As we journey through life, true success isn’t measured by wealth or accolades, but by the impact we leave on others. When we uplift those around us, we create a legacy far greater than any personal achievement.”
“As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.”
“As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”
“As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.”
“As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.”
“As we know, Clay Shaw was acquitted, and the establishment celebrated
another victory over the truth. In my view, Ferrie, Banister, Shaw, and Jack
Ruby would have been the conspirators Oswald worked with personally, on
the ground level, while far more powerful forces manipulated everything
behind the scenes. I share Jim Garrison’s theory that Oswald was some kind
of intelligence operative who was assigned to infiltrate what he was told was
a plot to kill the president, shortly before the actual assassination. At least
that’s where I think the evidence logically leads.”
Source: Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
“As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.”
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.”
“As we know Him (intimately), sin loses its grip on us. Our love for Him deepens, and serving Him becomes a great joy and fulfillment, not a drudgery birthed out of performance.”
Source: Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft
“As we know, priests make the most evil enemies – but why? Because they are the most powerless. Out of this powerlessness, their hate swells into something huge and uncanny to a most intellectual and poisonous level. The greatest haters in world history, and the most intelligent, have always been priests: – nobody else’s intelligence stands a chance against the intelligence of priestly revenge. The history of mankind would be far too stupid a thing if it had not had the intellect of the powerless injected into it...”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals
“As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a private secretary, turned away from the art nouveau-like, sensitized-atmospheric poetic approach of his early years to pursue a view of art determined more strongly by the priority of the object. The proto-modern pathos of making way for the object without depicting it in a manner 'true to nature', like that of the old masters, led in Rilke's case to the concept of the thing-poem - and thus to a temporarily convincing new answer to the question of the source of aesthetic and ethical authority. From that point, it would be the things themselves from which all authority would come - or rather: from this respectively current singular thing that turns to me by demanding my full gaze. This is only possible because thing-being would now no longer mean anything but this: having something to say.”
Source: Du mußt dein Leben ändern
“As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].”