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“In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.”

Matter States Government Found Left Church Religious Discipline Exercise Authority Constitution Independent Occasions Separation Of Church And State

Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.”

People Mind Next Found Lost Hours Half Lovers Discipline Concentration Lost Love Adore Half Hours Eccentricity

Author:Maya Angelou

“What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.”

Ideas Sometimes Found Creativity Creative Needed Discipline Structure Limitation

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.”

World Writing Book Helping Found Students Communication Internet Discipline Enlightenment Ideals Corners France Revolutionary Graduates Academic Oxford Graduate Students

Author:Robert Darnton

“Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.”

“Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.”

Men Self Hands Found Stars Brain Genius Discipline Normal Average Productions Nonsense Application Self Discipline Successors

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.”

World States Found United United States Study Week Discipline Training Army Soldier Finest

Author:Daniel Inouye

“Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. In the wild, dogs don't need humans to achieve balance. They have a pack leader, work for food and travel with the pack. When we bring them into our world, we need to help them achieve balance by fulfilling their needs as nature intended. This takes exercise and discipline before affection, and always maintaining your calm, assertive pack leadership.”

World Needs Humans Helping Found Leader Achieve Dog Balance Discipline Exercise Calm Affection Odd Our World Packs Fulfilling Maintaining Predicaments Assertive Wild Dogs

Author:Cesar Millan

“The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.”

Order Found Prayer Morning Discipline Unity Determine Acquire Morning Prayer

Book:Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

Source: Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.”

Wanted Found Acting Proud Dad Discipline My Dad Be Proud Coming Back Being A Dad Proud Of Me

Author:Tom Hardy