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“Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.”

May Mean Moments Used Certain Knowing Creating Dimensions

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.”

Thinking Certain Circumstances Defined Abortion Against Abortion

Author:John Bolton

“At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.”

Men Way Mean Made Character Certain Simple Healing Mankind Universal Slave Illness Manners Appetite Humankind Physicians Destined Provision Modification Lustful Incidence Simple Food

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.”

People Knows Certain Watches Style Skills Visuals Seconds

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.”

“Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.”

Knows Certain Talent Limits Blessed

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.”

Reality Certain Circumstances

Author:Lauren Conrad

“These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.”

Certain Individual Capacity Obstacles Circulation

Book:Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalistic Production

Source: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalistic Production

“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”

Needs Writing Romance Certain Wish Felt Novel Fashion Materials Claims Assuming Entitled Latitude

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.”

Knows Sometimes Certain Individual Sex Women Common Conditions Civilization Luck Western Reasonable Western Civilization Persecuted

Author:Rebecca West

“When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.”

Men Hands Certain Dies White Moral Duty Goodness Train Clean Terror Panic Buttons Irrational Moral Duty Moral Goodness

Book:Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.”

“Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.”

Men Spiritual Certain Conditions Style Dignity Add Excitement Distinction Peculiar

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.”

Writing Kind Two Running Remember Certain Dies Poet Gun Publish

Author:Umberto Eco

“Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.”

“Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.”

Art Moments Light Certain Art Is Theme Retelling

Author:George Lucas

“They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.”

Men World Soul Certain Women Secret Hundred Every Man Respectable

Author:Austin O'Malley

“A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.”

Believe Certain Greater Ethical Greater Good Suspension

Author:Joan Didion

“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”

Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal

“Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.”

Ifs World Writing Certain Study Historical Desperate Endurance Nevertheless Threatened Affirmation Continuity

Author:George F. Kennan

“A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.”

Used Certain Given Mistake Situation Principles Relation Response Doctrine Articles Dozen Pins Prevailing Great Mistakes Containment

Author:George F. Kennan

“When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.”

People Knows Writing Trying Whole Hands Together Certain Given Pieces Information Communication Direct Thirds Range Rely Horizon Fourth

Author:R. D. Laing

“In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.”

Men Giving Believe May Light Certain Results Cases Birth Ego Sight Blind Misery Confusion Operations Projection Mundane Madmen Disorientation

Author:R. D. Laing

“Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign, and you and I will stand there. I durst not touch that subject. Take it into your own hearts, and think about it, a kingdom, a judgment-seat, a crown, a gathered universe; separation, decision, execution of the sentence.”

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.”

Ifs Knows Trying Certain Stage Misery Explanation

Book:The Humbling

Source: The Humbling

“She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.”

People Kind Certain Strange All Kinds Strange Places Venison

Author:Laura Riding

“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”

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Author:Laura Riding

“If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.”

Ifs Mind Real Philosophy Lasts Certain Voice Challenges Views Attention Gains Mere Insight Theology Echoes Novelty Unprepared

Author:George Henry Lewes

“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?”

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.”

“It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.”

Ifs Way Giving May Made Philosophy Certain Values Moral Principles Amount Genius Regard Lays Appeals Idiot Exception Old Fashioned Disregard Admitting Idiotic Moral Values

Book:On War

Source: On War

“There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.”

People World Wells Kind Certain Accepting Policy Concepts Rejects Foreign Policy Elitism

Author:George W. Bush

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”

Ifs Want Heart Stills Real Able Certain Suffering Loses Hurt Willing Amount Tricks Over You Good Life

Author:Will Smith

“I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.”

People Thinking Way Reason Certain Knowing Judging

Author:Blake Lively

“There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.”

People Long Has Beens Play Whole Certain Roles Changed Approach Backgrounds Fast Food

Author:Tom Waits

“I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.”

Thinking Play Character Certain Values Actors Huge Degrees Presses Staying Target Radar

Author:Liev Schreiber

“There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I see a lot of people dressing very similarly, and I see brands being cool because of their name and because of who wears the brands, but that's always been the case. That's kind of the history of fashion. You know, celebrities wear their clothes and people think these celebrities are cool, and then the clothes become valuable. It gives clothes a commodity factor once a certain individual starts wearing that brand. But do I think there's something wrong? I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.”

“I like to just see what's going on at a certain location and see what there is to do. If it looks and sounds like I'm able to have fun there, then I'm all for it.”

Ifs Looks Able Certain Fun Sound Having Fun Location

Author:Justin Bieber

“The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.”

Certain Dies Culture Interesting Alive Failing Very Interesting Staying Alive

Author:Campbell McGrath

“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Play Would Be Certain Goal Levels Practice Special What You Want Phenomenal

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.”

People Knows Wells Certain Stuff Know How Car Motorcycle

Author:Channing Tatum

“You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.”

Knows Trying Looks Age Certain Fun Roles Add Glad Realist

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.”

Thinking Feels Kind Self Certain Growing Up Comedy Growing Cynicism Indiana Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.”

Ifs Way Persons Ideas Country Certain Opinion Compare Usa Distress Say Anything

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.”

Ifs Giving Trying Believe Doe Matter Care Motivation Certain I Believe Levels Steps Support Insight Take Care Parts Of Life Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Tony Robbins

“People will go into a relationship, if it's a brand new relationship, it's so exciting because it's something brand new, it's variety, it's different. And you're so excited by the feelings. And what most people try to do because they don't want to lose that, they try to control it to make it certain. And if they make it so certain then you become bored in the relationship. It's a delicate balance.”

People Ifs Want Trying Different Feelings Certain Loses Balance Exciting Excited Brands Variety Bored Delicate Brand New New Relationship

Author:Tony Robbins