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“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously
signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage
to a new modality of existence-that of a being "born to spirit,"
that is, a being that does not live solely in an immediate reality.
Thus initiatory death forms an integral part of the mystical process
by which the novice becomes another, fashioned in accordance with
the model revealed by the Gods or the mythical Ancestors. This
is as much as to say that one becomes truly a man in proportion
as one ceases to be a natural man and resembles a Supernatural
Being.”
Source: Rites and Symbols of Initiation
“It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.”
“It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.”
Source: The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters
“It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.”
“It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort”
Source: Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research
“It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.”
“It must not be considered a failure to openly acknowledge a life we are not proud of.”
“It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.”
Source: Democracy in America
“It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.”
Source: Democracy in America
“It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.”
“It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.”
“It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have already seen that in some of its types and aspects it was inherently nothing of the sort; as when, for example, it came to be confused with the Land of the Gods. In all likelihood these separate paradises and deadlands of a nature so various were the result of the stratified beliefs of successive races dwelling in the same region. A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines. The gods of vanquished races might be conceived as presiding over spheres of the dead for which their victors would have nothing but contempt, and which, because of that very contempt, might come to be conceived as hells or places of a debased and grovelling kind, pestiferous regions which only the spirits of despised "natives" or the undesirable might inhabit.”
Source: British Fairy Origins
“It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.”
“It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.”
“It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the little guy, 'cause they don't elevate anybody. The people I'm talking about try to make things fair by punishing and penalizing people at the top. They seek equality and fairness by reaching for the lowest common denominator they can find. Equally shared misery seems to be what their utopia is.”
“It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark
“It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.”
“It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.”
“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
Source: The Return of the King
“It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.”
“It must require bravery to be honest all the time. I wouldn't know.”
Source: Divergent
“It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”
Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four
“It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.
'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.'
'I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.'
'Oh, now that's hard.'
("Novelty")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“It must then have been nearly midnight: but so slowly did I creep along, that I heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned down the lane from Slough to Eton.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium-eater, With Levana, the Rosicrucians and Freemasons, Notes From the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater, Etc. With Introductory Note by William Sharp
“It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor in New Orleans, and I was sure that somewhere in Alaska some poor Inuit had just taken a tumble from his sled for the very same reason.”
“It my be helpful, in attempting to understand the basic nature of the new caste system, to think of the criminal justice system-the entire collection of institutions and practices that comprise it-not as an independent system but rather as a gateway into a much larger system of racial stigmatization and permanent marginalization. This larger system, referred to here as mass incarceration, is a system that locks people not only behind actual bars in actual prisons, but also behind virtual bars and virtual walls-walls that are invisible to the naked eye but function nearly as effectively as Jim Crow laws once did at locking people of color int a permanent second-class citizenship. The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system but also to the web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and outside of prison. Once released, former prisoners enter a hidden underworld of legalized discrimination and permanent social exclusion. They are members of America's new undercaste.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."”
“It nearly killed me. It trapped me like a bird in a cage.'
Elain said, 'Then I will find it. I might require some time to reacquaint myself with my powers, but I could start today.'
'Absolutely not,' Nesta spat, fingers curling at her sides. 'Absolutely not.'
'Why?' Elain demanded. 'Shall I tend to my little garden forever?' When Nesta flinched, Elain said, 'You can't have it both ways. You cannot resent my decision to lead a small, quiet life while also refusing to let me do anything greater.'
'Then go off on adventures,' Nesta said. 'Go drink and fuck strangers. But stay away from the Cauldron.”
Source: A ​Court of Silver Flames
“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.”
Source: Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
“It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.”
“It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.”
Source: The Showings of Divine Love
“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”
“It needs a god to make fate.”
“It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.”
Source: the Gentleman in the Parlour
“It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“It needs a very long time to earn a great respect but it just needs a few second to spoil all respect...”
“It needs as much generosity to take as to give.”
“It needs brains to be a real fool.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“It needs considerable wisdom to understand your ability to handle the numerous problems of the world. It is foolish to take the responsibility of everything wrong out there and then feel crushed under its burden.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“It needs courage to be afraid.”
Source: The Essays
“It needs efforts to carry on in a relationship, just formalizing everything up doesn't mean LOVE.”
“It needs EFFORTS to catch time on time!”
“It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.”
“It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise - a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.”
Source: Just Around the Corner: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple
“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.”