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“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.”

Men Made States Past Heaven Results Hell Past Life Heaven Or Hell

Book:The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

Source: The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

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Author:Gustave Courbet

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman

“Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.”

Humans Doe Matter Past Results Quality Subjects Products Educational Accomplish Liberating Humane Subject Matter Human Intelligence Humanistic

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.”

Mean Past Spiritual Results Poet Elements Normal Limitation Atmosphere Mixtures Dissolution

Author:Novalis

“All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.”

“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.”

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Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.”

Mind Long Whole Facts Past Science Values Individual Results Depends Long Time Research Discovery Embrace Complexes Enterprise Collectives Exception Inventor

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Waiting Results Amount Tomorrow Bounds Poison Outlook Discontent Seasoning

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.”

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Book:Occult principles of health and healing

Source: Occult principles of health and healing

“When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.”

Past Pleasure Results Wonder Comedy Adventure Ideals Triumph Charm Drs Ingenuity Steampunk

Author:Stephen Fry

“Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Philosophy Past Individual Understanding Results Existence Personality Ambition Affair Planning Backgrounds Founders

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.”

People Believe Looks Doe Has Beens Made Country Play Moments Government Today Past Games Results Effort Principles Progress Position Direct Competition Regulation Free Play

Author:Roger Babson