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“Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise”

Whole Character Life Is Source Praise Profit Whole Life Thee

Author:Akhenaton

“Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.”

Men Life Mind Faces Knowledge Source Face To Face Converses

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.”

Soul Christian Religious Half Sun Source Communicate Certainty Bud

Book:I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus

Source: I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus

“The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.”

Joy Source Sorrow

Book:Cress Delahanty

Source: Cress Delahanty

“Be still and turn within to the great source.”

Stills Turns Meditation Source

Book:Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life

Source: Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life

“Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.”

Source Research Plagiarism

Author:John McPhee

“Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.”

World Way Book Reading Source Life Changing Rooted Entering Book Reading Inner Life Seminary

Author:James Carroll

“Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.”

Identity Source Intimacy Service Royalty Assignments Intimacy With God Servant Of God Christian Service Servanthood

Book:Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation

Source: Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation

“The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.”

Years Real Focus Our Lives Source Holy Enthusiasm Best Times Sanctify Holy Days

Author:Martha Beck

“The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.”

Process Source Empowerment

Author:Martha Beck

“There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.”

Science Dies Turns Natural Alive Source Waste Plant Organisms Leafs Consumed Ecosystems Robins Hawks Caterpillars

Author:G. Tyler Miller

“Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.”

Feels Looks Figures Source Journalism Journalist Feminine Impressive Feels Right Silicon Gullible Enhancement

Author:Larry King

“Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.”

Children Important Sex Christ Church Perfect Love Is United Knowing Greater Source Prosperity Income Covenant Making A Living Prospering

Author:John Piper

“I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.”

Helping Faith Found Source Comfort Daily Life Unitarian

Author:Leverett Saltonstall

“The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.”

Energy Animal Land Source Ocean Mass Resources Areas Trade Plant Commerce Minerals Plants And Animals Animal Life Energy Sources Jurisdiction Totems Offshore Mineral Resources

Author:Tom Allen

“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”

Powerful Source Ambition Ill

Book:The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

“I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Whole Feelings Earth Kindness Divine Source Understood Peace On Earth Kinship

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.”

Levels Source Amount Protect Code Scrutiny Protect You Verification

Author:Ken Thompson

“Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.”

Men Divine Source Pure Streams

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.”

Whole Taken Source Civilization Tradition Arguing Buddhist Contemplative

Author:Sam Harris

“Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.”

States Principles Source Taxes Income Rely Revenue Income Tax Sales Tax

Author:Bill Jenkins

“At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.”

Way Bigs Song Stage Source Theater Musical Pops One Time Pop Song Musical Theater

Author:Neil Tennant

“SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!”

Source Humorous Program Checks Motels

Author:Ken Thompson

“Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.”

Source: Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books

“Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.”

Ideas Wish Interest Creative Strange Source Morality Reputation Agency Creative Power Leonardo

Book:Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Leonardo da Vinci

“That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.”

Source Vanity Cowardice

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“Our experience of love is more of a measure of whether we're connected with the universal source of this energy. In other words, there's some life energy that we have and sort of share with people we might be relating to that takes place, that operates whether we're sort of feeling in a state of love or not. But love is the measure of whether we're really connected with the internal source of this energy where we can consciously sort of fill up and amplify the amount of energy that we're able to take in from the inside.”

People Love States Feelings Might Able Energy Love Is Share Source Amount Universal Connected Internals Amplify

Author:James Redfield

“To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

Ifs Matter Hands Religion Belief Wish Hell Source Comfort Hideous Cowardly Fiery Avengers

Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.”

World Mean Running Christ Source Ordinary Resources Flow Extraordinary Kingdoms Commodity Competitors Scarce Circulation Scarce Resources

Author:Michael Horton

“There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.”

Made Joy Pleasure Awareness Source Limits Alternatives Fuel Tunes Electricity Fossils Surroundings Fossil Fuel

Author:John Lindsay

“For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.”

Art Imagination Source Endless Originality Brilliance

Author:Gail Levin

“don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.”

Kind Mean Book Sound Loses Lines Materials Source

Author:Zack Snyder

“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.”

Simple Party Pay Support Havens Source Reader Models Thirds Dollars Complicated Enterprise Print Proven Revenue Business Models Advertisers Third Parties

Author:Dave Eggers

“I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!”

Way Writing Made Book Ideas Different Sometimes Dream Song Source Titles Staring Shelves Good Way Bookshelves

Author:Julia Stone

“The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.”

“There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't mean to imply that they're all in that category at all. There are also those who are also not motivated by ideological resistance for any role of government. But I don't know of any arguments or any presenters of arguments that overturn the consensus that I think have gained any legitimacy.”

Thinking Knows Mean Government Views Roles Source Argument Income Resistance Motivated Categories Carbon Consensus Ideological Skeptic Legitimacy Presenter Role Of Government

Author:Al Gore

“Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.”

Way Important Light Law Individual Policy Changed Source Window Crisis Burden Solve Heat Vehicle Pumps Hybrid Bulbs Light Bulb Solar Panels Geothermal

Author:Al Gore

“I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.”

Thinking Trying Matter Use Film Source Making Changes Remakes Reinterpretation

Author:Spike Lee

“The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.”

Moments Planets Source Ocean Happenings Finals Things Happen Dramatic Exploring Frontiers Our Planet Source Of Life Unexplored

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I rarely eat red meat and only occasionally eat fish. Plant based foods are my main source of nutrition along with nuts, fruits, brown breads and grains.”

Source Red Plant Fruit Fishes Bread Meat Brown Nuts Nutrition Grain Red Meat

Author:Gary Player

“Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this stuff that's so close to me.”

People Writing Children Two Easy Stuff Wife Materials Source Direct Delight My Wife My Children Grass Interpretation Surprising Leaves Of Grass Elevating

Author:Edward Norton

“Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.”

Writing Moving Mother Memories Source Mythology Greek Muse Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Marge Piercy

“Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.”

Strong Source Development Critical Nuclear Very Strong Fusion Mining Nuclear Power

Author:Kesha Rogers

“Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.”

World War Stories Inspiration Seems Stage Source Lifetime War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I September September 11 Source Of Inspiration Source Of Strength

Author:David McCullough

“Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.”

Enough Would Be Source Insane Good Enough Competing Open Source

Author:Larry Ellison

“One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level; some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.”

People Mean Reason Whole Levels Support Source Selling Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.”

People Sides Interest Company Source Inclination Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.”

Want Source Currents Swim

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec