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“Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.”

Needs Able Stuff Powerful Minutes Overcoming Deeper Stuck Touching Hanuman

Author:Krishna Das

“You will never be able to measure your influence for good.”

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.”

Able Moving Turns Next Games Term Memories Decision Emotion Practice Groups Pages Short Term Short Term Memory

Author:Randy Carlyle

“Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).”

World Able Speak Understanding Justice Compassion Students Pages Hearing Our World Without You True Justice

Book:True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

Source: True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

“The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.”

Running Able Parent Sound Misery Legs Accidents Tiny Burning Crash Limbs

Author:Martin Caidin

“In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.”

People Knows Way Able Spirit Order Left Happened Ought Seeking One Way Grants Weary Veneration Left Handed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”

Ifs Knows Men Stills Able Dark Skins Seven Shells Seventies Hares Slough

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.”

Art Hands Eye Able Turns Conscience Phenomenon

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.”

Mean Soul Able Born Return Birth Embrace Painful Separation Limitation Expansion Reunion Dissolution Confinement Individuation

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.”

“Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.”

People Men Mind Doe Helping Care Today Able Sin Offers Ten Judgment Tolerance Guilty Attributes Commandments Reducing Miscellaneous Idolatry Benevolent Ten Commandments Upstairs

Author:Charlie Campbell

“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

World Years Has Beens Done Facts Able Left Force Break Air Terrible Essentials Ocean Army Obvious Fallen Guts Soviet Could Have Been Slaughter

Author:Winston Churchill

“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.”

“Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.”

Men Mean Reason Done Able Common Successful Activity Constitution Profit Harm

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.”

Ifs Men Art Able Turns Forget He Man Errors Faults Consideration Compelled Offended Thyself Compulsion Attending

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.”

Able Air Willing Draws All Things Intelligent Harmony Embrace Thee Breathing Surround Concerts

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.”

Able Courses Teacher Risk Teaching Speech Regard Focused Eras Freedom Of Speech Discourse Exceptional Framework Educator Jesuit Incurring

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.”

Has Beens Able Realizing Roles Democracy Demand Members Chosen

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.”

Men Needs May Able Function Credit No Money

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Mean Enough Able Expression Circumstances Obvious Every Man Swear

Author:Paul Valery

“Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.”

Men May Able Talent Return Compliment

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.”

Has Beens Country Able Unions Soviet Loyal Soviet Union Ussr Truly Happy Loyal Friend

Author:Paul Robeson

“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.”

Needs Play Problem Bigs Government Able Policy Huge Solutions Research Resources Innovation Fund Crucial Components Big Problems Public Policy Basic Research

Author:Bill Gates

“The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.”

Should Trying Kind I Can Ideas Different Able Certain Actors Roles Fans Boring Disappointed Different Kinds Expecting Reinventing Reinventing Yourself

Author:Arjun Rampal

“Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.”

Knows Heart Kind I Can Two Able Term Break Pieces Thirds Medical Heart Break

Book:Counting by 7s

Source: Counting by 7s

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”

“We have so many kids in America to be adopted, but it's expensive. All these families that want children aren't able to because of the financial aspect, and that, to me, is just the most disgusting thing ever.”

Want Children Kids Able America Aspect Financial Expensive Disgusting Adopted

Author:Cindy Margolis

“I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.”

Children Doe Has Beens Able Mother Courses Careers Blessed My Children Extras Procedures

Author:Cindy Margolis

“Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand”

“My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Able Past Strong Goes On Weak Ghost Daddy Graveyard Racket

Author:Susan Crandall

“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.”

People Ifs Problem Able Creativity Creative Security Computer Exciting Solve Priorities Staying Touching Be Creative Exciting Things Top Priorities

Author:Bill Gates

“Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.”

Author:Bob Goff

“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.”

People Country Able Bits Talking Situation Growing Up Growing Meetings Developed Country

Author:Bill Gates

“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.”

Men Has Beens Stills Might Able Stars Sun Sky Objects Praying Moon Abuse Wine Blow Accomplish Beer Sat Destroying Worms Drank Abolish Pluck Philip Women And Wine

Author:Martin Luther

“A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”

Men Able Mystery Weak Cunning Secrecy

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.”

Eye Able Jobs Faces Actors Lines Generations Standing Woods Tricky Elijah Concealing Redundant

Author:Jay Carr

“To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.”

Needs Ideas Able Law Term Loss Ability Cutting Risk Information Habit Flow Overcoming Edges Uncertainty Characteristics Probability Marketplace Traders Recommendations Ferrets Information Flow

Author:Ari Kiev

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.”

Men Able Lasts Faces Night Walks Rooms Break Bed Spring Chains Last Night Pillow Anatomy Trousers

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.”

Mean Reality Able Values Fantasy Judging Distance Patient Newspapers Cures Journalism Primitive Psychoanalysis Therapeutic Fantasy And Reality

Author:Bill Vaughan

“For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.”

Wells Able Christian Middle Century Jew East Middle East

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.”

Kids Able School Social Parent Plans Middle Discussion Fades Crude Middle School Supervision

Author:Bill Vaughan

“With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.”

Persons Able Promise Conversation Someday Frozen

Book:Treadmill to Oblivion

Source: Treadmill to Oblivion

“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”

People Giving Writing Book Reality Age Able Class Gains Entertainment Excuse Novelists Historian Imaginary Factual Biographers Vicarious

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.”

Men Able Natural Grace Subjects Errors

Author:Blaise Pascal

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Life Looks Children Littles Bigs Seems Able Grows Boys Gone Growing Up Strange Wind Cold Married Landscape Over It Retirement Retiring Being Married Procession Cold Wind

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.”

Ifs Stills Able Asks Share Childhood Your Children Native Urges Jail Village Entitled

Book:Literary Lapses

Source: Literary Lapses

“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

Knows Men Has Beens Art Done Use Seems Able Artist Born Known Accepting Ordinary Lifetime Rejects Afternoon Now And Then Great Art Great Artist Ordinary Man

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Looks Able Know How Fool Paper

Author:Ray Bradbury