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“Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.”

Desire Process United Practice Source Bliss Fulfilled

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.”

Firsts States United Practice United States Records First Time Regard Torture Remarkable

Author:Jennifer Daskal

“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.”

Important States Political Differences United Practice Technology United States Policy Innovation Management Factors Explanation Japan Trends Engineering Paradigm High Technology

Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

“Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.”

Stills Country States United Practice United States Western Punishment Ninety Death Penalty Capital Punishment Barbaric

Book:Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty

Source: Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty

“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.”

“Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.”

Self Nations United Practice Concepts Legislation United Nations Flawed Funding

Author:Susan Rice

“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.”

Thinking World Way Ideas Facts Church United Common Practice Members Relation Regard Sacred Translate Profane

Author:Emile Durkheim

“When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.”

Ifs Chance United Practice Planets Consumption Our Planet Save The Planet Save Our Planet

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.”

States Whole United Practice United States Ought Slavery Whole Life Prudence Abhorrence

Book:John Adams, the writer: a treasury of letters, diaries, and public documents

Source: John Adams, the writer: a treasury of letters, diaries, and public documents

“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.”

Humans Ideas Country States Body Universe United Practice United States Century Including Illness Spread Human Body Australian Fluid Healer Magnetic 18th Century

Author:Karen Abbott

“To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.”

Enough United Practice Teaching Holy Convince

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.”

United Powerful Practice Constant Most Powerful Recollection

Author:Alphonsus Liguori