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“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?”

Ifs Looks Book Matter Culture Reading Left Meditation Effects Television Tvs Majors Program Wave Disappear Look Up Processing Hemisphere Alphas Watching Tv Watching Television Beta Theta

Author:Leonard Shlain

“The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”

Ifs Left Truth Is Hunts

Book:The Lives of Others: Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors

Source: The Lives of Others: Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors

“If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.”

Ifs Men Law Left Study Time Left

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.”

Ifs Years Mind Children Soul Sometimes Left Heaven Vision Hell Quiet Driving Selling Shooting Roaming Refreshments Peace And Quiet Peddling

Book:Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children

Source: Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children

“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.”

Ifs Long Enough Bigs Moving Left Stars Water Memories Grief Behinds Huge Long Time Shining Endure Calm Wave Moving Forward Boat Keep Moving Behind You Swamps

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Left Money Rich Ten Years Ago Manage Peculiar

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.”

People Ifs Way Two Left Planets Capitalism Making Money

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.”

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Wells Mean Political Used Courses Father Left Worry Taught Argument Criticism Weight Cheer Cheer Up Political Arguments

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.”

Ifs Writing Mind Left Unconscious Left Alone Unconscious Mind

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Persons Joy Desire Left One Thing Convince Not Alone Left Alone Devastation Fear Of Being Alone

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.”

Ifs Mean Children Use Would Be Dies Left Born Liberty Baby Goodness Waste Organization Structure Useless Vain Starvation Nourishment Cornerstones

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.”

Ifs Persons Left England Newspapers Eighty Publication

Book:Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

Source: Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

“I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Law Left Force Nations Church Chance Known Principles Blood Ignorance Gods Will Great Men Wickedness Exaltation

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.”

Ifs Should Littles Lying Left Wish Wonder Bottom Data Lasting Confession Pauses Strict Empiricism Opaque

Book:Essays in Philosophy

Source: Essays in Philosophy

“When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.”

Ifs Trying Said Stills Fighting Left Advice Battle Seven Eagles Pompey

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.”

Ifs Men Kind Hard Whole Pain Reading Left Language Nations My Own Mankind Particular Harder Doctrine Demonstration Orderly

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”

Ifs Body Earth Left Water Air Philosophical Remains Best Things Ingredients Air And Water

Author:Novalis

“If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.”

Ifs Way Literature Left Forget Dignity England Performing Fleas Pitiful English Literature Antics

Book:The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41

Source: The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41

“If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.”

Ifs Knows Mean Shows Reading Left Please Mark Copies Aphorism Know Yourself Uneasiness

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.”

Ifs Men Wells Country Young Left Behinds Style New York Setting Settings Young Man Canada Thank God Decency Lag Neighbourhoods

Author:Mordecai Richler

“If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.”

Ifs Law Left Class Middle Majors Crisis Middle Class Iron Capitalist Back Again

Author:Terry Eagleton

“For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Made Left Behinds Forgotten Left Behind Let It Go Behind You

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.”

Ifs Giving Long I Can Different Left Black Rooms Acting Stage Color Painting Directors Red Green Paint Metaphor Brown Editing Really Great Purple Acting In Movies Red And Black

Author:Scott Glenn

“If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!”

Ifs Would Be Moving Left Force Black Walks Cases Sea Areas Russia Sensitive Troops Nato Crimea Coastline

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.”

People Ifs Doe Country Happens Past Left Cases Rights Judging Trade Good Sense Precious Things

Author:Michael Foot

“You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.”

Ifs Ideas Left Force Revolution Revolutionary Marxist

Book:Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

“It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?”

Ifs Thinking Universe Found Lost Left

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.”

Ifs Looks Stories Hands Might Eye Guy Turns Left Steps Feet Messages Crosses Balls Sorry Coffee Controlled Chests Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Thierry Henry

“Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?”

People Ifs Want Believe Mean Happens Individual Left Nations United Talking Hollywood Scared Weather Atmosphere Global Warming United Nations Want U Rating Contributing Elitist Co2

Author:James Inhofe

“We don't stop and realize that we are dealing with people - the far-left doesn't think we need a military to start with, they really don't. You've heard me say this before, they really believe if all countries would just stand in a circle and unilaterally disarm and hold hands then all threats would go away, they believe that. They would never say that but they do believe that.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Believe Country Hands Left Realizing Heard Military Threat Circles Going Away Holding Hands Dealing With People

Author:James Inhofe

“If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

People Ifs Art Would Be Able Form House Left Race Shapes Built Mentality Buttons

Author:Adolf Loos

“How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.”

“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

“Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.”

Ifs Knows Mean Would Be Today America Left Church Views Christianity Five Fundamentals Minorities Documents Fundamentalist

Author:Rick Warren

“If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.”

Ifs Firsts Mean States Life Is Winning Left Numbers Imagine News Blue Internals Engines Depressing Madmen Combustion Lefties

Author:Brock Yates

“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”

Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.”

Ifs Christian Left Heaven Christ Church Effects Tears Crosses Lifts Titles Christian Church

Author:Herrick Johnson

“There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.”

People Ifs Soul Spirit Left Defense My Soul Behave Ignored Crushed Drains Left Alone

Author:John S. Hall

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Order Left Difficult Successful Cutting Focused Profession Driven Personal Relationships Becoming Successful

Author:Nathan Lane

“If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.”

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Book:My Dearest Daughter: A Letter from the Death Cell

Source: My Dearest Daughter: A Letter from the Death Cell

“[On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.”

Ifs Want Giving Said Left Give Me Dry They Said Powder Hepburn Mgm

Author:Laraine Day

“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Ifs Years Humans Kind May Moments Past Left Black Seeing Fit Ten Fifty Sixty Memorial Mock

Author:Eric Rucker Eddison

“Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.”

Ifs Belief Left Views Let Me Bread Chasing

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Messi does not need his right foot, though. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world! Imagine if he also used his right foot... Then we would have serious problems!”

Ifs World Needs Doe Stills Use Problem Used Left Imagine Feet Serious Messi

Author:Zlatan Ibrahimovic

“President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.”

Ifs Years Two Left President Husband Two Years President Obama

Author:David Letterman

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