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“You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.”

Way Heart Certain Song Music Greater Musician Combination Variation Latitude

Book:Commentaries on Living 1

Source: Commentaries on Living 1

“The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.”

Way May Long Doe Facts Life Is Certain Evil Greater Danger Errors Expected Improvement Death Penalty

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

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

Believe Certain Greater Ethical Greater Good Suspension

Author:Joan Didion

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

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

“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.”

Needs Humans Soul Facts Spirit Certain Universe Emotion Greater Expression Despair Findings Profound Boredom Sublime Human Spirit Boundless Human Emotions

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.”

Ifs Knows Believe Wells May Reason Certain Greater Love You Neighbor Loving God

Author:Teresa of Avila

“If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.”

Ifs Want Persons Has Beens Stills Moments Seems Joy Certain Dark Worry Greater Letters Relief That Moment Elixir Elixir Of Life

Author:Sei Shonagon

“You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.”

Thinking Way Ideas Self Character Film Certain Deals Audience Greater Members Asking Distance Serving Questioning Discourse Arena Objectivity Wrong Way Self Serving Provoked

Author:Colin Farrell

“There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there's one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents.”

Source: Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

“To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.”

Film Certain Challenges Greater Degrees Shots Masochistic

Author:Michael Haneke

“Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.”

World Years Mind Humans May Different Age Certain Greater Ego Approach Years Ago Bigger Human Mind Noisy Density Different Ages

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.”

Made Soul Certain Next Greater Comfort Praise Tongue Ministers Sympathy Weary Reciting

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons

“There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.”

Men Certain Greater Effects Average Doctrine Plato Separating Average Man Chimpanzees Dynamite

Book:Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

“I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.”

Book Problem Certain Hate Literature Fiction Greater Effects Design Identity Reader I Hate Privilege Esteem Genre Conventions Conform Great Work Procedures Typefaces

Author:Michael Chabon

“Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.”

People Kids Certain Dies Winning Numbers Greater Sells Selling Thrilling Accolades

Author:James Ellroy

“... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.”

Real Certain Poverty Greater Progress Humility Confessing

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.”

Ifs Stills Ends Use Life Is Used Certain Individual Lost Greater Talent Refuse Saved Life Is Like Individual Talent

Book:Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B

Source: Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”

Stills Truth Certain Views Silence Opinion Greater Subjects Point Of View Practicals Totalitarianism Eloquent Propagandist Brave New World Technology

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.”

Feels Important Happens Moving Certain Greater Magic Studios

Author:Jeff Ament

“We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.”

Ifs Thinking Giving May Matter Remember Certain Realizing Poor Lord Greater Humility Grateful Profit Genuine Merit Receiving Be Grateful Majesty

Author:Teresa of Avila

“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.”

Mean Ideas Reason Certain Greater Possibility Practicals Realization Maturity Treatment Life And Time

Book:The religious thought in Islam

Source: The religious thought in Islam

“I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.”

“Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.”

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