B Quotes
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“By persistent hard work you will rise to success, but ultimately your accomplishments will be measured by how you treated your loved ones on the way up.”
“By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.”
“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das”
“By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.”
“By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”
“By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.”
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending community.”
Source: A Little Bit of Meditation: An Introduction to Focus
“By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.”
Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
“By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.”
“By planting more trees, our goal is not to combat global warming, but to increase oxygen through an exchange between plants absorbing carbon dioxide and humans absorbing oxygen.”
“By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.”
“By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources”
“By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.”
“By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.”
“By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.”
Source: Reshevsky's best games of chess: (Formerly titled: Reshevsky on chess)
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
Source: Poems
“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.”
“By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.”
“By pointing to the captain’s foolhardy departure from standard procedure, the officials shielded themselves from the disturbing image of slaves overpowering their captors and relieved themselves of the uncomfortable obligation to explain how and why the events had deviated from the prescribed pattern. But assigning blame to the captain for his carelessness afforded only partial comfort, for by seizing their opportunity, the Africans aboard the Cape Coast had done more than liberate themselves (temporarily at least) from the slave ship.
Their action reminded any European who heard news of the event of what all preferred not to contemplate too closely; that their ‘accountable’ history was only as real as the violence and racial fiction at its foundation. Only by ceaseless replication of the system’s violence did African sellers and European buyers render captives in the distorted guise of human commodities to market. Only by imagining that whiteness could render seven men more powerful than a group of twice their number did European investors produce an account naturalizing social relations that had as their starting point an act of violence.
Successful African uprisings against European captors were of course moments at which the undeniable free agency of the captives most disturbed Europeans—for it was in these moments that African captives invalidated the vision of the history being written in this corner of the Atlantic world and articulated their own version of a history that was ‘accountable.’ Other moments in which the agency and irrepressible humanity of the captives manifested themselves were more tragic than heroic: instances of illness and death, thwarted efforts to escape from the various settings of saltwater slavery, removal of slaves from the market by reason of ‘madness.’ In negotiating the narrow isthmus between illness and recovery, death and survival, mental coherence and insanity, captives provided the answers the slave traders needed: the Africans revealed the boundaries of the middle ground between life and death where human commodification was possible.
Turning people into slaves entailed more than the completion of a market transaction. In addition, the economic exchange had to transform independent beings into human commodities whose most ‘socially relevant feature’ was their ‘exchangeability’ . . . The shore was the stage for a range of activities and practices designed to promote the pretense that human beings could convincingly play the part of their antithesis—bodies animated only by others’ calculated investment in their physical capacities.”
Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
“By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.”
“By posing climate change as a battle between capitalism and the planet, I am not saying anything that we don't already know. the battle is already under way, but right now capitalism is winning hands down. it wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, of for breaking emission reduction commitments already made. it wins when Greeks are told that their only path out of economic crises is to open up their beautiful seas to high-risk oil and gas drilling. it wins when Canadians are told our only hope of not ending unlike Greece is to allow our boreal forests to be flayed so we can access the semisolid bitumen from the Alberta tar sands . it wins when a park in Istanbul is slotted for demolition to make way for yet another shopping mall. it wins when parents in Beijing are told that sending their wheezing kids to school in pollution masks decorated to look like cute cartoon characters is an acceptable price for economic progress. it wins every time we accept that we have only bad choices available to us: austerity or extraction, poisoning or poverty.”
“By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.”
“By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.”
“By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.”
Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters
“By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.”
Source: Raja Yoga
“By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.”
“By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.”
“By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.”
“By practicing mindful observation, you will become more aware of the virtues and qualities of what you are observing—a simple but useful spoon or a beautiful flower—which unlocks appreciation and gratitude for what you have. Cultivating a sense of gratitude in itself has been scientifically proven to have numerous health benefits.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“By practicing patience, we can avoid negative consequences.”
Source: Take A Little Soul Time
“By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.”
“By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.”
“By praising beauty, we improve, among other things, our constant development and evolution in search of meaning.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.”
“By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.”
“By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“By praying for our husbands and looking to the Lord rather than to our circumstances, we trust Him to carry both our husband and his burden. Then from the overflow of our hearts, we can give back to and encourage our men.”
Source: For Women Only, Revised and Updated Edition: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
“By praying really hard, you can make it so that your worst enemy feels dumb.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946
“By precipitating change, you'll create value. Those that do this best will win.”
“By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.”
“By presenting yourself in the best way you can, you can relieve yourself from worrying about how other people perceive you”
Source: Businessman With An Affliction
“By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.”
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!”
“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”