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“The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.”

May Country Able Achieve Increase Investment Profit Manage Expenses Capture Capitalist Other Countries Dependency Surplus Metropolis

Book:Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970

Source: Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“I hope you are looking forward to the tsunami of industrial effluent which is coming your way in the first quarter of the new year. You will not be able to avoid it, unless you are Helen Keller. One way or another, Wills and Kate are going to get you.”

Way Years Firsts Able One Way Quarters New Year Looking Forward Monarchy Kate Helen Tsunami

Author:Rod Liddle

“At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.”

Able Understanding Contradiction Internals Paradox Minimum

Author:William Poundstone

“I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.”

Writing Has Beens Able Emotion Fire Burning Finding Peace

Author:Ba Jin

“Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good nor evil, because everything has been created in accordance with immutable laws. the divine principles are reflected in these laws, and only through knowing these laws will we be able to get close to the divine.”

Humans Has Beens Able Law Universe Evil Principles Knowing Divine Concepts

Author:Franz Bardon

“Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.”

Ifs Mean Able Action Young Understanding Consciousness Effects Performances Minorities Transformed Young Women

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.”

Able Existence Rejoice Contemplating

Author:Ted Chiang

“The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.”

Giving Heart Country Able Class Mass Prejudice Errors Educated Reform Handful Idolatry Upper Class

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”

“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.”

“One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.”

World Humans Play Body Reality Able Imagination Existence Imagine Possibility Ocean Dare Organs Far Away Continents Idealism Human Body Human Imagination

Author:Terence McKenna

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Able Understanding Growth Steps Climbs Fifth Ladders Good Way No Hope Guarding

Book:Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.”

Ifs Able Realms Serving Grants Discernment Sustaining Potency

Book:The Ever-Present Origin

Source: The Ever-Present Origin

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

Want Should Firsts Mean Long Doe Helping Seems Care Able Desire Purpose Speak Language Term Ability Answers Principles Return Intention Long Term Chips Gratification Short Life Plain English

Author:Eric Liu

“Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.”

World Giving Seems Able Joy Understanding Influence Wings Intellect Spheres Joyfulness Clouded Sphere Of Influence

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.”

Persons Reason Able Individual Church Ability Weakness Institutions Threat Rationality Inability Teachable Individual Strength

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.”

Able Attitude Emotional Overcoming Kitchen Serenity Kitchen Sinks

Book:Meditation in Action

Source: Meditation in Action

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.”

People World Want Country Home Able Black Race Destiny Pursue Racist Controlled Black People Back Home Great Respect

Author:David Duke

“Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.”

World Different Whole Age Able Company Careers Records Possibility Whole World Enjoyed New Age Record Companies Staggering

Author:Lyle Lovett

“Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.”

Men Wells Able Literature Perfect Remembered Vulgarity

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.”

“I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.”

Way Has Beens Hands Able Certain Events Birth Computer Majors Draws Machines Asking Structure Drawing Motivated Asking Questions Extending Advent Computer Graphics

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.”

Has Beens Country Able Form Growth Interest Results Commitment Investment Rate Starting Reform Korea Philippines Interest Rate Thailand

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.”

Thinking Mind Littles Different Use Would Be Able Decision Consciousness Possibility Discipline Connections Mere Outcomes Emergence

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day”

Hard Able Night Enjoy Sleep Good Night

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.”

Ifs Knows Kind Able Common Ought Common Sense Public Health Pandemics

Author:Julie Gerberding

“There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.”

Play Able Games Team

Author:Tony Romo

“I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.”

Want Able Purpose Revolution I Realized

Author:Dan Bern

“Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."”

May Moments Able Enjoy Mystery Gains Theater Painful Delight Versions Enjoyment Vans Bad Movies Masochistic Van Helsing Funny Moments

Author:James Berardinelli

“Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.”

“You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.”

People Should Done Able Crime Damn My Time

Author:Rod Coronado

“Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.”

Able Situation Uncertainty Paradox Linked Organisation

Author:John Elkann

“Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.”

Men World Able Views Principles Percent Tasks Bases Philosopher Contemporary Ninety Theological World View

Author:Kurt Gödel

“The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.”

Firsts Has Beens Facts Able Film Certain Class Prove Mediums Composer Gifted First Class Film Music

Author:Jerry Goldsmith

“Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.”

Able Issues Worn Tights

Author:Sienna Guillory

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

Feels Mean Littles Character Able Action Success Acting Encouragement Little Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.”

“The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.”

People World Ends Able Political Found Plans Victory Unique Eternity Notes Shakes Delusion Initiative Dictatorship Domination Political Systems Yoke Craziest World Domination

Author:Friedrich Kellner

“The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.”

Ifs Knows Should Humans Wells May Inspiration Able Values Interest Divine Criticism Ignorant Human History Outlines Divine Inspiration Sceptic

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.”

People Thinking Able Records Pops Categories Aggressive Metals Punk Emo

Author:Bert McCracken

“free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.”

Able Individual Groups Performances Prosperity Socialist Free Market Parity Groups And Individuals

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.”

Years Able Next Jazz Jane Next Year

Author:Jane Monheit

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”

“They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.”

Ifs Way Kind Able Guy Found Numbers Threat Crude Jagger

Author:Anita Pallenberg

“It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.”

Able Imagine Economic Stage Development Ideals

Book:The Economics of Welfare

Source: The Economics of Welfare

“If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.”

Ifs Feels Believe May Children Done Able Father Christ Sin Simple Willing Son Arms Accounts Forgiving Faults Sorry Sake Casts Willingness Sincerely

Author:Samuel I. Prime

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