B Quotes
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“By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, Mikhail Suslov was talking with your senators in the Kremlin. And he said, "In fact the significance of our trade is more political than economic. We can get along without your trade." That is a lie. The whole existence of our slaveowners from beginning to end relies on Western economic assistance....The Soviet economy has an extremely low level of efficiency. What is done here by a few people, by a few machines, in our country takes tremendous crowds of workers and enormous amounts of material. Therefore, the Soviet economy cannot deal with every problem at once: war, space (which is part of the war effort), heavy industry, light industry, and at the same time feed and clothe its own population. The forces of the entire Soviet economy are concentrated on war, where you don't help them. But everything lacking, everything needed to fill the gaps, everything necessary to free the people, or for other types of industry, they get from you. So indirectly you are helping their military preparations. You are helping the Soviet police state.”
Source: Warning to the West
“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
“By approaching all of our feelings as a compassionate witness and listening to what they are wanting to say, we become able to take action in a way that is informed by our emotions instead of automatically reacting from them.”
“By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.”
“By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.”
“By approaching your interactions through the lens of likability, you can expect to be happier, more comfortable, and more successful in establishing meaningful relationships.”
Source: 11 Laws of Likability
“By approximately 200 C.E., the men saw they were losing control and took control of what has become known as “orthodoxy,” or the only true church. They ordered all copies of texts they deemed heretical, the so-called Gnostic texts, burned. These documents were burned because they taught that people have access to the deity and need not go through a religious hierarchy headed by a pope, bishop, priest, or rabbi. Access to the divine was available directly through divine knowledge.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“By April 23, 2014, thirty-four cases and six deaths from Ebola in Liberia were recorded. By mid-June, 16 more people died. At the time it was thought to be malaria but when seven more people died the following month tests showed that was the Ebola virus. The primary reason for the spreading of the Ebola virus was the direct contact from one person to the next and the ingesting of bush meat. Soon doctors and nurses also became infected. On July 2, 2014, the head surgeon of Redemption Hospital was treated at the JFK Medical Center in Monrovia, where he died from the disease. His death was followed by four nurses at Phebe Hospital in Bong County. At about the same time two U.S. health care workers, Dr. Kent Brantly and a nurse were also infected with the disease. However, they were medically evacuated from Liberia to the United States for treatment where they made a full recovery. Another doctor from Uganda was not so lucky and died from the disease. Arik Air suspended all flights between Nigeria and Liberia and checkpoints were set up at all the ports and border crossings.
In August of 2014, the impoverished slum area of West Point was cordoned off. Riots ensued as protesters turned violent. The looting of a clinic of its supplies, including blood-stained bed sheets and mattresses caused the military to shoot into the crowds.
Still more patients became infected, causing a shortage of staff and logistics. By September there had been a total of 3,458 cases of which there were 1,830 deaths according to the World Health Organization. Hospitals and clinics could no longer handle this crisis and patients who were treated outside died before they could get help. There were cases where the bodies were just dumped into the Mesurado River. The Ivory Coast out of compassion, opened carefully restricted humanitarian routes and resumed the previously suspended flights to Liberia.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the president of Libera sent a letter to President Barack Obama concerning the outbreak of Ebola that was on the verge of overrunning her country. The message was desperate, “I am being honest with you when I say that at this rate, we will never break the transmission chain and the virus will overwhelm us.” Having been a former finance minister and World Bank official, Johnson Sirleaf was not one for histrionics however she recognized the pandemic as extremely dangerous.
The United States responded to her request and American troops came in and opened a new 60-bed clinic in the Sierra Leone town of Kenema, but by then the outbreak was described as being out of control. Still not understanding the dangerous contagious aspects of this epidemic at least eight Liberian soldiers died after contracting the disease from a single female camp follower.
In spite of being a relatively poor country, Cuba is one of the most committed in deploying doctors to crisis zones. It sent more than 460 Cuban doctors and nurses to West Africa. In October Germany sent medical supplies and later that month a hundred additional U.S. troops arrived in Liberia, bringing the total to 565 to assist in the fight against the deadly disease. To understand the severity of the disease, a supply order was placed on October 15th for a 6 month supply of 80,000 body bags and 1 million protective suits. At that time it was reported that 223 health care workers had been infected with Ebola, and 103 of them had died in Liberia.
Fear of the disease also slowed down the functioning of the Liberian government. President Sirleaf, had in an emergency announcement informed absent government ministers and civil service leaders to return to their duties. She fired 10 government officials, including deputy ministers in the central government who failed to return to work.”
“By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.”
“By articulating clear objectives and strategies, a business plan can attract funding and support from stakeholders, fostering the school's development and sustainability.”
“By articulating your motivations, you lay the foundation to fuel your actions, abilities, and achievements toward the realization of your dreams.”
“By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.”
Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]”
“By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.”
“By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'”
“By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.”
“By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
“By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.”
“By associating new information with familiar cues, such as acronyms, rhymes, or visual and auditory cues, mnemonics simplify and condense information, making it more manageable for the brain.”
“By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.”
“By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.”
“By attempting the impossible – one is meaningfully occupied (D.L.).”
“By authentically sharing when things aren’t right you allow the people you care about to offer the support you may need.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“By awakening and embodying one’s childhood self, something starts to shift in his adult self.”
“By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.”
“By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom.”
“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.”
Source: The Power of Intention
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.”
“By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified”
“By bartering with certain things, it opens up space that allows the business to use cash more strategically and to use cash on the most profitable things and in the most profitable ways.”
“By bearing each other’s burdens, we “fulfil the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2; see also Mosiah 18:8). Jesus taught, “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). Can it be that in our search for joy, the best way to find it is to bring joy to others? My friends, you know and I know this is true! Joy is like a barrel of flour or a jar of oil that will never run out (see 1 Kings 17:8–16). True joy multiplies when it is shared.
It doesn’t require something grand or complicated.
We can do simple things.
Like praying for someone with all our heart.
Giving a sincere compliment.
Helping someone feel welcome, respected, valued, and loved.
Sharing a favorite scripture and what it means to us.
Or even just by listening.
“When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God” (Mosiah 2:17).”
“By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.”
Source: Howells and James: a double billing. Novel-writing and novel-reading; an impersonal explanation
“By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations.”
Source: Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
“By becoming aware of the differences and developing an understanding of each person’s uniqueness, you will improve your interactions to make more positive first impressions.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.”
“By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.”
“By becoming more attentive and aware of the thoughts arising in your mind, you will create the opportunity to question and reframe them.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“By becoming more aware of the things that are happening to you when you’re consuming food, you may be able to use those cues and signals to uplift your health and your well-being.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By becoming my best friend and being comfortable in the quiet, I can retreat any time into my personal sanctuary.”
“By becoming poets of physical and mental height, we can create new values and build new forms of life, defying the tyranny of habit, the constraints of the mapped and measurable, and challenging life’s routines that harden into unquestioned structures. ("Skyward, over and above")”
“By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.”
“By becoming somebody cat's paw, one loses own freedom of thoughts and actions.”
“By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.”
“By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.”
“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a tale. I was telling myself the story of a life, and this transmutes into an adventure the things which can shatter you.”
“By behaving elegantly, you inspire others to behave elegantly; by behaving rude, you invite others to behave rude! You change others when you change yourself!”