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“In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.”

“Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.”

Men World War Character Hands Science Secret Demand Accounts Treasure War Of The Worlds Outcomes Agency Desperate World War I Reflecting Ominous

Author:Winston Churchill

“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

People Whole Light Purpose Turns Dark Emotion Education Trouble Bears Window Mirrors Corners Educational Mood Reflecting Purpose Of Education

Book:Pieces of Eight Pa

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”

People Ifs Knows Want Mind War Ability Money Millions Figures Politician Concepts Majority Dollars Notion Size Rational Occasions Contracts Reflecting Million Dollars Swelling Accordions

Author:Robertson Davies

“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”

Knowledge Youth Errors Ancient Reflecting

Author:Francis Picabia

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”

Character Force Words Of Wisdom Judgment Reflection Speed Great Things Muscles Deep Thought Reflecting Self Reflection Wise Man Once Said Physical Force Dexterity

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.”

Self School Enjoy Growth Creating Direct Structure Privacy Mastery Reflecting Schooling Schooled Pretext Schools And Education

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind that passes through the trees, alert to everything that is happening. Concentration excludes much, includes little. Awareness excludes nothing, includes all. Awareness is a state of no-mind. You are, yet you are not focused. You are just a mirror reflecting all, echoing all; see the beauty of it and the silence and the stillness.”

Mind Mean Littles States Courses Silence Tree Awareness Wind Happenings Bird Mirrors Focused Fallen Concentration Stillness Reflecting Listen To Me

Author:Rajneesh

“Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.”

Stills Poor Building Higher Bases Clouds Reflecting Columns Giddy Building Castles In The Air

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.”

Matter Science Given Results Numbers Century Amount Habit Rivers Accounts Noise Operations Disorder Continents Reflecting Astonishing Computation

Author:Charles Lyell

“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.”

Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

“... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.”

Mind Ideas Quality Wise Atheism Limits Goodness Intelligent Arise Operations Reflecting Agnosticism

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open country, these robbers fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices. ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.”

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by watching them you will become unidentified with them, you will become a mirror reflecting them. And this brings great freedom. Freedom from dreams is freedom from the world.”

World Dream Freedom Watches Mirrors Your Dreams Reflecting Great Freedom

Author:Rajneesh

“Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.”

Years Lasts Fun Having Fun Thirty Reflecting Apollo Thirty Years Time Flies Apollo 11

Author:Pete Conrad

“The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.”

“When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.”

Want Art Beautiful Beauty Fashion Clothes Reflection Architecture Eras Preserves Preservation Reflecting Fashion Designer Architecture And Art Beautiful Clothes

Author:Azzedine Alaia

“If you are curious as to what your future may hold, you can look into a mirror. What is reflecting back? Does a sparkle in your eyes indicate excitement about new adventures and opportunities? Does a smile on your lips portray an inner happiness and abundant goodwill towards others?”

Source: Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth

“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb”

“The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.”

Mind Body Water Realizing Moon Empty Calm Warrior Martial Arts Reflecting Brilliance Samurai Way Of The Warrior Empty Mind

Author:Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

“My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.”

Feels Writing Trying Humans Doe Reality Courses Interest Speech Sentences Engaging Reflecting

Author:John Green

“It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.”

Hard Light Easy Air Photography Photographer Photograph Surface Reflecting

Author:Walker Evans

“This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.”

Ifs Knows Success Ability Journey Keys Transformation Pauses Know Yourself Reflecting Reacting Self Transformation Spiritual Transformation Pausing

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.”

May Littles Stills Light Hours Sun Environment Tree Broken Spring Rivers Mirrors Clouds Surface Mood Over It Diamond Day To Day Breeze Reflecting Serene

Author:Ernie Lyons

“People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”

People World Inspirational Looks Reflection Blame Spiritual Growth Sufi Reflecting Self Reflection

Author:Rumi

“The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.”

World Way Life Humans Important Self Today Race Break Opposites And Love Shining Casts Human Race Spells Sweetness Reflecting Live For Today

Book:The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light between their taught bio-morphic surfaces and reflecting the environment around them. During the day, the piece acts as a sculptural object reflecting the dynamics of natural light and movement of people around them.”

People Light Turns Natural Simple Environment Pieces Modern Movement Objects Taught Surface Floating Reflecting Ceilings Assembly Dynamics Pebbles Discs Aluminum Bios Fixture Natural Light

Author:Ross Lovegrove

“When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.”

Inspiration Courses Individual Sound Water Principles Fire Doors Movement Objects Materials Listening Flow Notion Musical Wave Crowds Ice Passages Reflecting Metamorphosis

Author:Bernard Parmegiani

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel.”

Feels Dressings Reflecting Dressing Up

Author:Blake Lively

“It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.”

Dream Wish Records Call Me Reflecting Irresponsible Recovering

Author:Michael Buble

“As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.”

Play Tvs Drama Happenings Reflecting

Author:Felicity Kendal

“I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.”

Thinking Should Conflict Mirrors Brave Compassionate Cheerful Reflecting Gutters Vistas

Author:Greer Garson

“I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.”

Persons Hard Philosophy Fighting President Conclusion Combination Decent Disappointed Judged Selection Reflecting President Bush Competent Demoralized Capitulation Cronyism

Author:William Kristol

“Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.”

Motivational Past Reflecting

Author:Chris Guillebeau

“Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.”

“I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.”

Thinking Persons President Half Glasses Vices Mentality Reflecting Vice President Bushism

Author:George W. Bush

“The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.”

Speak Wall Mirrors Cameras Photograph Tongue Pool Twisted Reflecting Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Book:Self Portrait

Source: Self Portrait

“That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.”

Light Earth Jobs Form Artist Dark Sky Rocks Shining Silent Reflecting Minerals Shining Light

Book:Four novels of the 1960s

Source: Four novels of the 1960s

“Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.”

“Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.”

Thinking States Wish Virtue Our Lives Inspire Fame Riches Heroic Posterity Reflecting Reflecting Upon

Author:Herodotus

“In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.”

Has Beens Art Made Shows Reality Lasts Belief Cases Art Is Analysis Neighborhood Great Art Convincing Reflecting Zeitgeist Belief In Yourself Provincialism Belligerence

Book:The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver

Source: The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver

“If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.”

Ifs Years Inspiration Motivation Progress Trouble Design Humility Concepts Invention Wheels Reflecting Luggage

Author:William McDonough

“When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.”

Giving Two Break Teacher Students Mirrors Individuality Brilliant Barriers Pairs Offering Restraint Breaking Down Reflecting Immaculate

Author:Laozi

“You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.”

Way Years Looks Done Past Moving Order Corners Reflecting Over The Past

Author:Tiger Woods

“I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.”

Ifs Moments Action Sports Punk Reflecting

Author:Andre Agassi

“During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?”

Ifs Needs Feels Moments Feelings Individual Stuff Pay Attention Listening Empathy Hearing Pay Attention Clients Listeners Reflecting

Author:Enrico Caruso

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”

Way Failing Achieve Creating Reflection Consequence Reflecting Self Reflection Unintended Consequences

Book:Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

“Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.”