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“Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.”

Form Energy Strong Grows Growth Natural Demand Oil Nuclear Chinese Gas Very Strong Coal Natural Gas

Author:John S. Watson

“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor”

Giving Self Form Growth Interest Crime Favors Distinction Deceit Shocked Wickedness Magnitude Artifice

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.”

Humans Form Growth Technology Communication Internet Solitude Direct Increase Phones Proportion Email Rapids Fax Rapid Growth

Author:Werner Herzog

“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.”

Art Form Growth Memories Vision Path Shapes Art Is Breathe Exploration Contracts Recollection New Paths New Vision Armenia

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

Beautiful Form Song Growth Acceptance Building Creating Endless Allowing Destroying Pulling Chasing

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.”

“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”

Inspirational Form Spirit Peace Growth Violence Adversity Democratic Obstacles Intolerance Slander Non Violence General Assembly

Book:The Message of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi

“What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.”

Humans May Mean Character Form Law Evil Found Social Growth Cutting Conditions Spring Down And Human Life Endeavor Accustomed Social Evils

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”

Knows World Feels Use Hands Form Mother Growth Nature Shapes Tasks Strive Wide Checks Barriers Rude Centre Prudent Wanton Deformity Pow Prunes Uncouth

Author:John Armstrong

“Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity's flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.”

Giving Heart Long I Can Age Form Humanity Individual Growth Unique Universal Flesh Sequence Pulse Intercourse Tissues Olaf

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“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

“True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.”

Has Beens Said Form Growth Quality Opinion Worst Assuming Arrogance Consideration Politeness Dogmatism

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.”

Country Enough Form Growth Rich Progress Economic Climate Change Currents Transition Pace Efficient Rapids Economic Growth Cleaners

Author:Nicholas Stern

“The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.”

Shows Spiritual Form Artist Individual Growth Creative Progress Expression Complexes Complexity Spiritual Growth Inner Life

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.”

Source: The Lessons of History

“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”

“We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from - from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us.”

Ideas Form Order Growth Wealth Cities Creation Innovation Interaction Physicist Wealth Creation Viewpoints Facilitate Entropy

Author:Geoffrey West

“For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?”

Ifs Wells May Self Seems Form Courses Grows Growth Loss Secret Dangerous Goes On Safe Gains Atmosphere

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.”

People Life Littles Form Growth Consequence Gains Negative Personal Growth Investing Acquire Acquisition Usefulness Gluttony Negative Consequences

Author:Ray Dalio

“I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.”

“Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.”

Hands Form Nations Growth Steps Youth Benefits India Increase Employment Lions Initiative Governance Manufacturing Make In India

Author:Narendra Modi

“Such growth will move humans into ever-higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the afterlife dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.”

Humans States Body Spiritual Moving Form Energy Growth Existence Birth Higher Dimensions Cycles Afterlife Transforming Birth And Death Uniting Celestine Prophecy

Author:James Redfield

“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.”

Source: Selected Writings

“You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn't a fearsome opponent but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is infinitely greater, and by a miracle of creation, it is within your grasp.”

World Years Form Order Growth Natural Powerful Greater Creation Shadow Miracle Infinite Worthy Proof Billions Opponents Survived Wholeness Natural World Infinite Power

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.”

Would Be Form Growth President Average Vices Boat Executives Desks Vice President Fungi Barnacles

Author:Fred Allen

“Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.”

Past Form Purpose Values Process Growth Creative Achievement Creative Process Emergence Dynamics

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”

“All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.”

People Self Form Growth Economic Currents Seeds Destructive Destroying Taxation Incentives Corn Economic Growth Self Destructive

Author:Daniel J. Mitchell

“Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.”

Looks Character Helping Christian Spiritual Form Growth Results Our Lives Habit Method Prepared Traditional Spiritual Growth Stem Vitality Formation Spiritual Formation

Book:The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

Source: The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

“Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.”

People Ideas Earth Form Guy Father Growth Alive Creatures Unique Infinite Plant Consistent Expansion Scope Guru Flora Savory Plant Life

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.”

Mind Ideas Helping Form Understanding Growth Pieces Fate Development Organization Function Principal Listeners

Author:Arnold Schoenberg

“The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.”

Giving Persons Form Growth Attention Principal

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.”

Form Growth Infinite Expansion Scope

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.”

Form Law Literature Growth Lines Principles Balance Guides Efficiency Equity Symmetry

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.”

Character Motivational Spiritual Form Growth Change Difficulty Improvement Hockey Crucible Starting Anew Awaken The Giant Within

Author:Tony Robbins