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“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”

Life Cities Produce Citizens Taste Mark Ugly Advertising Anarchy Citizenship Ugliness Good Taste Good Citizen Good Citizenship

Author:Lester Beall

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

Life Children Seems Individual Effort Education Learning Produce Educational Everlasting Schooling Schooled Antagonism School Education

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.”

Ifs Men Life Wells Stars Modern Produce Concern Caring Nine Useless Laughed Dreamer Modern Science

Book:Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”

Life Inspirational Action Change Produce Bears Signatures Peace Is Every Step

Author:Nhat Hanh

“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”

“Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.”

Thinking Knows Life Asks Easy Growth Situation Opinion Knowing Worst Produce Personal Growth Investing Valuable Worst Situation

Author:Ray Dalio

“Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.”

Life Remember Understanding Growth Quality Produce Personal Growth Investing Superiors

Author:Ray Dalio

“A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.”

People Life Effects Objects Produce Lessons Surroundings True Life

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?”

Life Littles Science Universe Consciousness Produce Meaningless Mechanism Being Me Little Time Being Mean

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.”