B Quotes
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“By reframing our thoughts and understanding, we allow decisions to be made without expending a great deal of our limited motivation.”
“By refusing to abide by a wall, map, property line, border, identity document, or legal regime, mobile people upset the state's schemes of exclusion, control, and violence. They do this simply by moving.”
Source: Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
“By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“By refusing to respect you and your needs, the other is bringing about a certain set of natural consequences, which themselves can become the other’s teacher. Your job is to simply facilitate the learning process, beginning by asking reality-testing questions, and proceeding to warnings.”
Source: The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
“By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.”
Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.”
“By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.”
Source: Red Sky in the Morning
“By rejecting femininity and tradition we have lost our culture.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.”
“By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.”
“By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.”
“By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.”
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.”
“By remaining alert in the centre, we can acquire a creative ability of seeing both sides of an occurrence and completing an incomplete half.”
Source: Ego, Hunger and Aggression
“By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.”
“By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.”
Source: Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
“By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs.”
Source: Waiting with God: 31 Days to Finding Answers for Unanswered Prayers
“By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.”
“By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.”
Source: Timeless Wisdom: Passages for Meditation from the World's Saints and Sages
“By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.”
“By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.”
“By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.”
“By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.”
“By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.”
“By repeatedly reminding yourself of the 'elusiveness' of money, you may begin to distinguish it from the people or the group that use it.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.”
Source: Absolute Friends
“By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.”
“By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.”
“By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.”
“By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.”
“By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.”
“By resolving the problems of others you climb life`s ladder of success.”
“By resonating with your humility, your businesses long term strategy and an awareness for the perceptions of those involved from investment to those working with you, consider an amount that honors every aspect across the board.”
“By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.”
“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.”
Source: An Anthology
“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer”
“By respecting boundaries, we refrain from imposing ourselves and cultivate caring and fair relationships that respect each person's individuality. In our interactions, we must consider people as equal subjects rather than objects we want to control or manipulate. ("I am marking my Boundaries - Je plantes mes Piquets " )”
“By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!”
“By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.”
“By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“By retracing the emotional fragments lost in the turns and splits of the past, we may learn to reconstruct a shattered self, find a sensible present, and prepare to inhabit a share of the future. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”
“By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain.
Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil’s gift of compassion (co-feeling) will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas’s fate (or curse), he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina’s letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.”
Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation
“By riding public transportation and reading newspapers, we become like the others, sinking further and further into the they”
“By right we arm but by love disarm”
“By right we arm but by love, disarm. Now is the nation called to love. By gun control we challenge not your rights to arms but your heart to sacrifice that love entails. So give me not a reading of the law but tales of love's deeds in hearts and homes -- how racks have shed arms like autumn leaves and turned the land from red to gold.”