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“If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.”

People Ifs Looks Said Courses Differences Doors Figures Essentials Picks Standing Trade Weather Useless Etc Working It Standing Out Veins Respectable Beggar Livelihood Accountants Bronchitis

Author:George Orwell

“The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.”

Body Purpose Song Community Study Written Messages Praise Cells Contemplation Etc Celebration Scholar Prophecy Printed Contemplative Announcements Lamentation Recitals

Author:Thomas Merton

“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”

Ifs World Ends Moving Turns Morning Crime Future News Wake Up Credit Checks Cards Etc Pot Cake Max Credit Card Dip Carrots Coming To An End Clams Vat Nachos

Author:Anne Lamott

“If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.”

Ifs Long Running Beautiful Perfect Be Good Etc Long Runs Orderly

Author:Abraham Maslow

“The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.”

Made Sound Water Scene Grateful Painter Posts Etc Rotten Escaping Mills I Am Grateful Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.”

Facts Strength Color Painting Spite Etc Strongest Composition Arrangements Inevitability Souvenirs

Book:Robert Rauschenberg

Source: Robert Rauschenberg

“Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.”

Men Made Building Boat Landscape Etc Construction Man Made Things

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.”

“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.”

People Doe Hard Young Choices Difficulty Competition Profession Chess Etc Occupation Hobbies

Author:Boris Spassky

“My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.”

Thinking Doe Faith Ability Lord Raises Bread Etc Grain Pigs Leading Me

Author:Brigham Young

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.”

Ifs Knows May Deals Know How Grace Imagine Food Tomorrow Bread Etc Milk Staff Advise Sleeves Mixing Flour

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.”

Book Night Walks Half Findings Humorous Excellence Stealing Excellent Etc Trends Shopping Dozen Cleaning 80s Bookstores Malls Grasping Sellers Racks Personnel Best Sellers Garfield

Author:Dave Barry

“The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.”

Persons Country Problem Running Form Energy Animal Middle Humorous Scientist Bills Cancer Oil Enormous Department Sand Etc Cows Rats Eastern Laboratory Dinosaurs Raccoons Bulldozers

Author:Dave Barry

“I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.”

World Years Believe Kind Different Language I Believe Brain Millions Musical Etc Different Kinds Spatial Multiple Intelligences

Author:Howard Gardner

“Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.”

Character Stories Film Certain Directors Etc Location Percentages

Author:Guy Pearce

“I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.”

Example Citizens Classic Etc Dean Classic Movie Citizen Kane

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.”

Looks Political Plans Criticism Majority Revolutionary Etc Sincere Broads Resentment Economist Controversy Theoretical Disagreement Craftiness

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.”

“For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.”

People Thinking Kind Said Stories Lost White Interesting Study Subjects Seasons Folks Ridiculous Silly Guilty Fake Etc Guests Portions Fringe Ufo Something Interesting

Author:Joe Rogan

“I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a capital "N" and evolving toward a very hard-nosed case for the economic value of natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, etc.”

Thinking Hard Spiritual Moving Values Natural Emotion Cases Economic Movement Argument Environmental Evolve Etc Ecosystems Biodiversity Moving Away Intrinsic Value Economic Value

Author:Edward Norton

“Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.”

Wells Beautiful Games Social Sports Class Streets Healthy Essentials Etc Positively Integrating Social Class

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc”

Giving Joy Etc Hobbies

Author:Dennis Prager

“The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.”

Men World Whole Light Water Air Prepared Etc Salt Definite Memories Dreams Reflections Nature Of Man Carbohydrates

Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

“Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.”

Men Heart Soul Light Spirit Church Religious Son Holy Pure Tradition Missions Useless Holy Spirit Etc Abandon Asia Tao Pure Heart Religious Traditions Dionysus Osiris Oceania

Author:Simone Weil

“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.”

People Ifs Humans Happens Dies Process Views Depression Normal Etc Being Human Learning Experience

Author:Bob Geldof

“Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.”

Boring Etc Cliche Antiquity

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.”

Ifs Thinking States Seems Care Values Winning Moral Messages Smart Red Folks Metaphor Favors Health Care Appeals Etc Voters Describing Affordable Moral Values Affordable Health Care

Author:Eric Liu

“No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

Ends Etc Cash Portions Exploitation Wages Bourgeoisie Landlord Labourers Shopkeepers

Book:Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history

Source: Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history

“But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.”

Ifs Long Said Hands Political Asks White Knowing Wise Blue Green Jew Welcome Ask Me Etc Communist Cows Belly Marxism Beard Calves You Re Welcome

Author:Marc Chagall

“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

Ifs Knows Facts Feelings Eye Speak Talking Sea Reader Habit Pure Highest Wave Rage Checks Fixed His Eyes Etc Flood True Ones Remorseless

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.”

Ifs Mind Soul Body Honest Concepts Evidence Immortality Realms Etc Infinity Metaphysical Supernatural Beings

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“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.”

“I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!”

Giving Courses Conscious Fishes Dinner Cooks Meat Girlfriend Etc Craving My Girlfriend I Am Pretty Bad Food

Author:Tiger Woods

“Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.”

Men Reality Pain Sound Church Lines Instant Repeats Colour Etc Yellow Temperature One Line

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”

Men Would Be Results Imagine Failing Errors Congress Etc Monstrous Defenders Encyclopedia Pascal Cromwell Montesquieu

Author:Lord Acton

“Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.”

People Feels Home Care Jobs Company Careers Nice College Focused Etc Runway

Author:Ursula Burns

“I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.”

People Choices Sides Wife Areas Majority Workers My Wife Agents I've Learned Etc Bounce Sponsors Co Worker

Author:Kurt Sutter

“Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.”

Way Feels Wells Self Helping Opportunity Style Self Esteem Figures Esteem Etc Dressings Missed Opportunity Dressing Well

Author:Stacy London

“For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.”

Ifs Needs Important Use Action Energy Cities Talking Building Green Important Things Impact Patterns Priorities Etc Goods Consumption Carbon Transportation Fractions Energy Use

Author:Alex Steffen

“A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.”

Doe Made Sound Views Ought Performances Died Structure Characteristics Etc Consideration Length Precise Frequency Morphology

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”

Humans Mean Facts Individual Social Religious Animal Moral Cases Psychology Pressure Fundamentals Instinct Etc Internals Organisms Heredity

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.”

Form Memories Principles Plans Military Figures Circumstances Solutions Solve Absence Drawing Fixed Etc Application Inability Similarity

Book:The Principles of War

Source: The Principles of War

“Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things" (on economic laws, the market etc.).”

Law Order Lord Economic Masters Projects Transformation Slave Objectives Etc Technological Dependence Domination Donors Serfs

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.”

Should Trying Body Desire Asks Energy Force Process Levels Power Subjects Materials Behavior Constitution Instance Etc Gestures Organisms Multiplicity Subjection Subjugation

Author:Michel Foucault

“Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?”

People Knows Want Important Real Problem Asks Answers Behavior Addiction Ask Me Therapy Etc Alcoholics Involvement Important Questions

Book:7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love

Source: 7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love

“No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.”

Thinking Should Mean Art Matter Happens Talking Creativity Painting Absolutes Cooking Physics Crafts Etc Chemistry Engineering Not Talking

Author:Alton Brown

“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

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