B Quotes
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“By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents whileb proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accumulated! Idols of stupidity they are; public reminders of a state of affairs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic.
The meaning of it all is unfolding right under our noses, all the time, but we can't see it. We don't pay any attention. We were taught from childhood to avert our gaze, lest we be considered fools. So now we seem to live in some kind of collective trance, lost in a daze the likes of which have probably never before been witnessed in history. We feel the gaping emptiness and meaninglessness of our condition in the depths of our psyches. But, like a desperate man thrashing about in quicksand, our reactions only make things worse: we chase more fictitious goals and accumulate more fictitious stuff, precisely the things that distract us further from watching what is really happening. And, when we finally realize the senselessness of such reactions, we turn to 'gurus' doling out pill-form answers instead of paying attention to life, the only authentic teacher, who is constantly speaking to us. There is no literal shortcut to whatever it is that the metaphor of life is trying to convey. There is no literal truth. The meaning of it all cannot be communicated directly. There are no secret answers spelled out in words in some rare old book. The metaphor is the only way to the answers, if only we have patience and pay attention. Look around: what is life trying to say?”
Source: Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
“By facing adversity and hardship, we gain in internal strength, competency, self-worth and self-efficacy.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.”
Source: Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp
“By failing, and only by failing, can you really gauge how much and how well you know something.”
“By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.”
“By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”
“By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“By faith, Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, took practical steps towards its achievement.”
“By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.”
Source: Temptation and Sin
“By Faith, the impossible can become possible. That is why you must never give up on yourself.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.”
“By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.”
Source: A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians: To which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author, and a Complete and Impartial History of the Times in which He Lived
“By Faith, we can unlock the locked doors in front of us, provided they are endorsed by the Mighty God.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.”
“By faith you can work miracles and perform heroic deeds”
“By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.”
“By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.”
“By false learning is good sense defaced”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.”
Source: Eglinton park meeting, and other poems
“By far Gretzky is the most talented player ever. Every time he gets the puck something exciting happens.”
“By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free.”
“By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.”
“By far the best proof is experience.”
“By far, the best way to find myself before I end up losing myself is to put someone else before myself.”
“By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”
“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.”
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
“By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries
is the power of thought.”
Source: The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook
“By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.”
Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
“By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.”
“By far the highest type of religious thought among the Ancients was that of their philosophers. With Saint Augustine, on the contrary, a new age was beginning, in which by far the highest type of philosophical thinking would be that of the theologians. True enough, even the faith of an Augustinian presupposes a certain exercise of natural reason. We cannot believe something, be it the word of God Himself, unless we find some sense in the formulas which we believe. And it can hardly be expected that we will believe in God's Revelation, unless we be given good reasons to think that such a Revelation has indeed taken place.”
Source: Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages
“By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.”
“By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.”
“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.”
Source: Osler's
“By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".”
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.”
“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.”
“By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments-that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.”
Source: Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow
“By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.”
“By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.”
“By far, the oldest of the claptrap philosophies of mankind is astrology.”
Source: Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions Publisher: Prometheus Books
“By far, the only way to add to great things is to appreciate the fact that they are great things. For anything else that I do will not lessen great things, but they will certainly lessen me.”
“By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.”
“By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.”
“By far the top factor that led Fanatics to label a customer as high-risk was deposit frequency. (The second largest was the percentage of bets placed on days of the week other than Saturday.)”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.”