B Quotes
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“By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.”
“By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.”
“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3
“By means of the Divine Lights the heart becomes polished so that it shines like a polished mirror. When it becomes a mirror one can see in it the reflection of all existing things and the reflection of the Kingdom of God as they really are . When one sees the Glory and Majesty of God in His Realm then all the lights become one light and the chest becomes full with this shining light. He is like a
man who observes his reflection in a mirror and sees in it at the same time the reflection of all that is before and behind him. Now when a ray of sun hits the mirror the whole house becomes flooded with light from the meeting of these two lights: the light of the sun-ray and the light of the mirror. Similarly the heart: when it is polished and shining it beholds the Realm of Divine Glory and the
Divine Glory becomes revealed to it. – Al-Hakim at-Tirmidhi”
Source: Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
“By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.”
“By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.”
“By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.”
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State”
“By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.”
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
“By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.”
Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra
“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”
Source: The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“By meditating, you are beginning to act and every action which is pleasing to God brings you closer to the actualization of your God-given vision”
“By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.”
“By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single moment you begin to be aware of the gap - imageless gap of the screen - you have the glimpse. Suddenly you know that you have lived in the dreams of your own creation; and whatsoever you have known as the world was not the world really, it was YOUR world.”
“By melding each other within ourselves, may we evolve into an inseparable unified form.”
“By men's words we know them.”
Source: Medieval fables
“By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite”
“By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.”
Source: The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy
“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.”
“By merely running away from action, no one attains perfection. Renunciation of life is not the way to reach the highest goal of evolution.”
Source: Inward Journey
“By merging our collective insights and expertise, we design solutions that transcend the capabilities of any one individual. Think of it as a mental potluck where everyone brings their best dish to the table, resulting in a feast fit for the gods of innovation and change.”
Source: Disruptive Collaboration: Unleashing the Power of Collective Intelligence
“By mid-2009, integration had been officially attempted in only two of the state’s 33 prisons, beginning with non-violent inmates considered most likely to accept it. At Sierra Conservation Center, southeast of Sacramento, integration began in the fall of 2008. For three days, hundreds of prisoners protested by refusing to work, eat, or leave their cells. Rules violations increased five-fold. Prisoners refused to share cells even though they could be punished with withdrawal of television, commissary, and exercise privileges, and have up to 90 days added to their sentences.
'To me, this is like using us like lab rats, to see if it works,' said black inmate Glenn Brooks. 'It ain’t ever going to work. All it’s going to do is get somebody hurt, get somebody killed.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“By mid-March 2020 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, the schools were closed due to COVID-19.”
“By mid-March, I was on COVID-19 lock down in my home due to being a high risk individual with pre-existing conditions.”
“By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.”
Source: The Stone Field
“By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.”
“By midlife, we're usually aware enough to understand which of our issues most need attention. We've learned where we're strong, but also where we're weak. We know what parts of ourselves to be proud of and what parts of ourselves should change. We know what our issues are. It might not be a time when we're learning new things about ourselves so much as understanding more deeply what we already know.
This is not the time to stop working on ourselves; it's the time when we've finally accumulated enough clues to help crack the case and solve the myself why and how we've kept ourselves bound for so long. Its not the time to give up and say, 'this is who I am, its too late to change.' Quite the opposite- its time to take a stand, once and for all, for your own potential. Don't worry that it took you so long to get to this point. It takes everyone this long. We know nothing until we know all the ways that we're not who we should be. Only then do we have a chance at becoming the people we've wanted to be, and God intended us to be, from the day we were born.
And for that reason alone, these are sacred years.”
Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
“By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.”
Source: The House on the Borderland: Horror Stories Collections
“By mine honour, if I were but two hours younger, I’d beat thee. Me think’st thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee
--Lafeu”
“By mirroring, speaking, and moving in tandem with my clients, I provided them with a sense of familiar comfort and ease which helped us work well together. When they leaned forward, I would lean forward. When they crossed their arms, I would cross my arms. When they began speaking slowly and quietly, I would do the same. These subtle actions help to us to communicate more effectively.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“By moderation one can be generous.”
“By monitoring liquidity metrics, board members can ensure the company has sufficient cash on hand to pay its bills, meet payroll, and invest in growth opportunities.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.”
“By morning, Adelaide was beginning to understand why she'd never completely understood how God worked. Given that He had made the bewildering, maddening, incomprehensible species that was man from His own image, it stood to reason that the Creator would be a complicated mass of logic never meant to be understood by the female mind. That, or the fall of man in the Garden of Eden had taken them even further off the path than she'd ever realized”
Source: An Uncommon Courtship
“By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.”
Source: Hollow City
“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”
“By morning you won't remember his name and you won't want to forget mine." -Vinter”
Source: Simple Need
“By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like to not know his body, not to have felt him inside her and held him in her arms and absorbed the power of his thrusts as he came. By morning, she was his.”
Source: Cry No More
“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.”
Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought
“By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.”
“By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.”
“By moving fearlessly you can gain a limitless mind”
“By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.”
“By moving, we are waking our bodies up, not making them surrender.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.”
“By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
. . . .
Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author
“By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958