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“When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is only a temporary state of Religion, and whilst it lasts will hardly be seen with pleasure at the helm. Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.
("Out Of The Deep")”
Source: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
“When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.”
“When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.”
“When Indian military occupation and martial law last for more than 70 years with no end in sight, one has to suspect that things are not going well.”
“When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.”
“When Indian women begin the search for an Indian man, they carry a huge list of qualifications. He has to have a job. He has to be kind, intelligent, and funny. He has to dance and sing. He should know how to iron his own clothes. Braids would be nice. But as the screwed-up Indian men stagger through their lives, Indian women are forced to amend their list of qualifications. Eventually, Indian men need only to have their own teeth to get snagged.”
Source: Reservation Blues
“When Indians sleep, they really do sleep. Neither adults nor children have a regular bed-time -- when they're tired they just drop, fully clothed, on to their beds, or the ground if they have no beds, and don't stir again until the next day begins. All one hears is occasionally someone crying out in their sleep, or a dog -- maybe a jackal -- baying at the moon. I lie awake for hours: with happiness, actually. I have never known such a sense of communion. Lying like this under the open sky there is a feeling of being immersed in space -- though not in empty space, for there are all these people sleeping all around me, the whole town and I am part of it. How different from my often very lonely room in London with only my walls to look at and my books to read.”
Source: Heat and Dust
“When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“When individual needs are in control, the world has all the abundance it needs.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.”
Source: Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.”
“When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.”
“When individuals feel comfortable approaching their leaders, their confidence to share ideas, discuss problems, and offer suggestions is strengthened. It emboldens them to take personal ownership and perform at higher levels within the organization.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.”
“When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.”
“When individuals stand up, institutions collapse.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“When individuals unlock their potential, the entire organization feels that positive ripple effect.”
Source: Maximizing Organizational Performance: A Guide to Effective Performance Coaching
“When Indra wanted to disrupt a sages penance, he would disburse Celestial hotties like OnlyFans subscriptions”
Source: Shadows Rising
“When industrialisation is put into implementation, then the nation will be fully guaranteed to satisfy the population.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“When industries lack competition, businesses get belligerent. Competition helps keep businesses humble.”
“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.”
“When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.”
“When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“When information about who is or is not a security threat is a product to be sold as readily as information about who buys Harry Potter books on Amazon or who has taken a Caribbean cruise and might enjoy one in Alaska, it changes the values of a culture. Not only does it create an incentive to spy, torture and generate false information but it creates a powerful impetus to perpetuate the fear and sense of peril that created the industry in the first place.”
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
“When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.”
“When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.”
“When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.”
“When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972
“When inhibition has become the de facto setting in a person's manner, stiffness and lack of spontaneity produces an unnatural self-repression. Life looks gray, dull, and rigid, without space for relaxation or play to burst forth in natural ways.”
“When inhumanity is committed on others, we turn our back, when it's committed on us, we compromise. That's how the world works, nay, that's how we work - we the so-called civilized beings. What civilized! What sentient! What sapient! We haven't even developed the spine to stand up to oppression and dehumanization! Then how on earth could we call ourselves civilized, sentient, and sapient!”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“When injustice begins, only power can stop it.”
Source: SUPERSONIC ROBOT: A Series of Science Fiction
“When innocence has its eyes gouged out, a Christian must lose his faith or accept the gouging out of eyes.”
Source: The Plague
“When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.”
“When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”
Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
“When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.”
Source: Darkfever: Fever Series
“When insecurity starts to rub off on you, you begin to lose a sense of belonging.”
“When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“When inspiration and emotions are sudden, and you can truly capture something, then, yeah, of course it feels good. But when you’re stunted, and you’re having trouble expressin’ yourself, then obviously it doesn’t. So it’s never constant.”
“When Inspiration and imagination meet, words smile at us.”
“When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time”
“When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.”
“When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”
“When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!”
“When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.”
“When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.”