I Quotes
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“In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.”
“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the context of them owning anything, though, that will never happen. Ever. In my life.”
“In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species”
“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.”
“In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.”
“In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.”
“In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.”
“In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.”
Source: The Depths of the Soul (Psychology Revivals): Psycho-Analytical Studies
“In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.”
“In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.”
Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
“In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.”
“In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don't have the support of your own people. That's against the reality.”
“In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“In really every area of the mayor's life, whether you're trying to fill in holes in the road, trying to keep your community safe, trying to have the robust neighborhood life, or trying to encourage the arts - really at every turn our job has gotten a lot harder under president Trump.”
“In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.”
“In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.”
“In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.”
“In realty, The junk bug is actually a cold blood killer, study the heap he carries closely, those aren't bits of leaves and dirt on his back, owner of coronaviros, in the name of Jesus, carry your sicknesses and die.”
“In realtà il grande problema dell'islam non è la laicità, ma la secolarizzazione, che significa la soggettivizzazione della religione: cioè che la religione diventa un elemento tra tanti altri. Compito della democrazia è di trattare in modo egualitario questa opzione di vita. Il terrorismo che utilizza l'islam lo rifiuta totalmente, in blocco”
Source: Il jihadista della porta accanto
“In realtà non esiste nulla al mondo a mio avviso capace di liberarti da te stesso, nessuno che possa tenderti una mano e tirarti su dalla palude se non lo vuoi davvero. Non è il solito discorso motivazionale, stupidate del genere «volere è potere», è solo la constatazione che gli altri non riusciranno ad affrancarti da qualcosa di cosí profondo, una specie di gomitolo che hai nel petto e che si è formato in anni di esperienze traumatiche ed esempi sbagliati. C’è un solo modo per districare il tutto: afferrare il filo da un capo e iniziare a disfare lentamente la tela fino ad arrivare al primo nodo dal quale tutto è partito. Gli ansiolitici (come forse anche la terapia breve del caro terapeuta Cavalli), al contrario, mi dànno l’idea di un trucco furbo che alla fine non ti porta da nessuna parte, come quando ti ritrovi davanti al groviglio degli auricolari (ma come fanno quei benedetti fili ad annodarsi cosí? A proposito di entropia…) e, anziché cercare di capire quale sia il movimento giusto per sbrogliare la matassa, inizi a tirare come un invasato confidando nella forza.
Quello che ho capito, in quaranta e passa anni su questa Terra, è che la forza serve fino a un certo punto, è molto piú utile la pazienza."
(Lorenzo Marone, inventario di un cuore in allarme)”
Source: Inventario di un cuore in allarme
“In realtà, ogni momento della nostra vita è creazione; per un essere cosciente, "esistere" significa cambiare; cambiare nel maturarsi; e maturarsi nel creare se stesso all'infinito.”
Source: Creative Evolution
“In realtà, riflettendoci, e tornando alle nostre vite terrene, tutti per fortuna siamo sempre presi da un progetto, in ogni momento della nostra vita abbiamo qualcosa da portare a termine, che sia un’opera per un artista, un cantiere per un ingegnere, una casa da ristrutturare per un operaio, una classe da accompagnare alla maturità per un insegnante, una causa importante da vincere per un avvocato, o un nipote da crescere per un nonno.
A tutti la fine arriverà a scombussolare i piani, c’è poco da fare.
Anzi, c’è molto da fare. Nel frattempo.
«L’importante è che la morte mi colga vivo», diceva Marcello Marchesi.
Già.”
Source: Inventario di un cuore in allarme
“In realtà si dovrebbe parlare di attrazione e non di gravitazione.
Ogni oggetto, microscopico o macroscopico, è attratto da altri oggetti secondo un rapporto tra la massa e la velocità.
Questa legge funziona anche per le persone, anzi soprattutto per le persone. Sono attratte da altre persone ma anche da oggetti, animali, panorami, natura, progetti.
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Il pilastro è l'amore.
L'amore sorregge la nostra esistenza in tutte le sue pieghe, alimenta i desideri, scatena il furore delle passioni e la dolce tenerezza degli affetti.”
Source: L'amore, la sfida, il destino: Il tavolo dove si gioca il senso della vita
“In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.”
Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]
“In rebellion, a man reject his Maker.”
“In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with their own experience. Often this honey was dirty and bitter, but every scrap of knowledge was honey all the same.”
Source: My Childhood
“In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.”
“In recent decades, the independent scientists have amassed a huge amount of evidence of willful radiation poisoning of the masses by their own toxic corporate controlled governments.”
“In recent decades we have emphasized the value of teaching people 'tolerance.' Tolerance is not only inadequate, it is a negative concept which only alienates society further. Learning to tolerate absolves people of the responsibility of learning to understand different people, accept and appreciate their differences, and progress towards respecting them for who and what they are. It is only when we build acceptance between people that we will rid ourselves of the scourge of prejudice and liberate ourselves from violence.”
Source: Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
“In recent philosophy there has been a growing awareness of the gap between the abstract principles proposed by philosophers and the ways in which people actually think. The kind of rationality admired in the theory of knowledge is idealization. In the real world people have to act on beliefs often based on fragmentary and unreliable evidence.”
Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
“In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.”
“In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.”
“In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.”
“In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.”
Source: The affluent society
“In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.”
“In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.”
“In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.”
Source: Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature
“In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)”
“In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.”
“In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'”
“In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.”
“In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.”
“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”
“In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.”
Source: The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
“In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.”
“In recent years behavioral scientists have shed some light on why these waiting techniques can be powerful. Let’s first look at the notion that texting back right away makes you less appealing. Psychologists have conducted hundreds of studies in which they reward lab animals in different ways under different conditions. One of the most intriguing findings is that “reward uncertainty”—in which, for instance, animals cannot predict whether pushing a lever will get them food—can dramatically increase their interest in getting a reward, while also enhancing their dopamine levels so that they basically feel coked up.
If a text back from someone is considered a “reward,” consider the fact that lab animals who get rewarded for pushing a lever every time will eventually slow down because they know that the next time they want a reward, it will be waiting for them. So basically, if you are the guy or girl who texts back immediately, you are taken for granted and ultimately lower your value as a reward. As a result, the person doesn’t feel as much of an urge to text you or, in the case of the lab animal, push the lever.”