A Quotes
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“A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.”
“A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.”
“A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.”
“A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."”
“A reflection of something cannot exist without
the real thing to support it. Said another way, a reflection of something is dependent on what’s true and real.”
Source: Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS
“A reflective human mind would look at the COVID-19 pandemic and will be reminded that this life will end one day for him from one or the other material cause. But, it does not matter whether it will be due to any disease or accident. However, his life and life of others is not meaningless.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“A reflective mind will keep in mind the scientific and historical evidence that death is as much a fact as is life. The belief in life hereafter completes the cause and effect puzzle even in moral sphere of life. In life hereafter, everyone will get deterministic reward for intentional acts in this life based on the ability and freedom in the circumstances which one faced in this life, no matter whether rich or poor, white or black, male or female, strong or weak and elite or commoner. That makes life of everyone meaningful rather than a constant struggle of survival in one form of matter to the other form of matter where survival instinct is the only moral code.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”
“A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.”
Source: The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“A Reforma Política é importante, mas nenhuma reforma será maior do que a conscientização popular.”
“A reformed soul is a repented person.”
“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.”
“A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.”
“A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“A reframe is not about telling yourself that
your fear is wrong. Reframes are about finding another way to look at the possibilities of your life.”
Source: Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable
“A refreshing west coast breeze carried a few clouds toward the main door of the car shop by the ocean's rocky beach on the island.”
Source: Blazing Night
“A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.”
“A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.”
“A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.”
“A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!”
Source: The Secret Stair
“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.”
“A refugee is someone who was forcefully taken out of their time and place. They were then placed in another time and another place that insist on dehumanizing them. It is a tragedy. The ultimate paradox and irony of this tragedy is that, in many cases, those who caused their displacement and those who hate them in their newfound ‘homes’ in exile are the same people! In this way, they leave no place for a refugee to feel at home or even alive.”
“A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“A refugee saved is a world saved.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.”
“A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
“A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of a pseudonym given to you by a journalist. Those ideas were soon taken up by Lena Dunham, Lady Gaga, and Kesha. And now, with Harvey Weinstein's unmasking, they've spread to the top of Hollywood.”
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to take seriously the unconscious psychological mechanisms that individuals need to use to protect themselves from the unspeakable. Such a denial is, however, no longer ethical, for it is in the human capacity to dissociate that lies part of the secret of both childhood abuse and the horrors of the Nazi genocide, both forms of human violence so often carried out by 'respectable' men and women.”
Source: From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness
“A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.”
Source: Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical
“A refusal to grow up is like crouching while pulling others down.”
“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”
“A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.”
Source: The Children of Men
“A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.”
Source: If I am assassinated ...
“A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“A regiment of servants brought out silver platters and trays of champagne, and the guests settled in their chairs to enjoy the repast. They were given individual servings of goose dressed with cream and herbs and covered with a steaming golden crust... bowls of melons and grapes, boiled quail eggs scattered lavishly on crisp green salad, baskets of hot muffins, toast and scones, flitches of fried smoked bacon... plates of thinly sliced beefsteak, the pink strips littered with fragrant shavings of truffle. Three wedding cakes were brought out, thickly iced and stuffed with fruit.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“A regressor actually does not regress. What actually regresses isn’t him, but everything else excluding him.”
“A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.”
“A regret is nothing but a worry that's moving backwards in time.”
“A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.”
“A regret, upon realization, is forgiveness in the making. Any regret once accepted and reflected upon matures into forgiveness. The residue from a decomposed regret becomes fertile soil for the plant of forgiveness. This is the natural outcome of a resolved regret.”
“A regular exposure to hurt, humiliation, and social isolation made them sink into a world of their own. Depressed and alone, they began having trouble eating and sleeping as they grew older.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“A regular Ferris wheel from a Wilmington carnival was like a dwarf planet compared to this gigantic wheel.”
Source: Lost in London
“A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self-love.”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“A regular sheep would rather choose a wolf in a sheep's clothing over sheep that tells the truth. A lie suits better one's self-deceit.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“A regulator's greatest fear is the sequential collapse of hedge funds, banks, and brokerages. That process is hard to spot and even harder to stop.
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There are two sides to every trade. In a crash there can be just as many winners as losers. The problem arises when the losers go out of business. At that point the winners can't collect so they become losers too. It's as if you were a big winner at roulette and went to the cashier to collect your winnings only to find the cashier window closed and the casino had just filed for bankruptcy. All you have left is a pocketful of worthless chips. At that point, even the market winners can fall into financial distress. Because of leverage, total losses can exceed the size of the market itself. It's like a minefield. Banks running from panic start stepping on mines.”
Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy
“A reinar, fortuna, vamos;
no me despiertes, si duermo,
y si es verdad, no me duermas.”
Source: La vida es sueño