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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”

Ifs Peace Source Vain Peace Within

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.”

Thinking Art Levels Creativity Source Highest Enjoyment

Author:David Rockefeller

“The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.”

Way Doe Culture Source Truth Is Spring Seasons Campaigns Advertising Celebrate Coca Cola Christmas Season St Nicholas

Author:Richard Roeper

“Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.”

People America Energy Wind Source And Love Independent

Author:Mitt Romney

“We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.”

Important Together Values United Common Race Family Special Source Institutions Bounds Almighty Ethnicity Almighty God Race Ethnicity Race And Ethnicity

Author:Marco Rubio

“Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.”

President Party Known Class Economy Middle Source Prosperity Enterprise Middle Class Free Enterprise

Author:Marco Rubio

“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”

Heart Earth Simple Forever Pieces Source Wall Shining Sunlight Borrowed Splendor

Book:The Pocket Rumi

Source: The Pocket Rumi

“I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.”

Heart Facts Able Values Community Source My Heart Closest Source Of Happiness

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.”

Government Past Left Source Britain Gaps Relative Secular Philanthropy Altruism Secular Society Cutbacks

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.”

Knowing Source Gratitude Bases Delight Appreciation Civilized

Book:Coming to terms

Source: Coming to terms

“Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.”

Men Way Values Three Pleasure Source Excellent Pleasant Honorable Admirable Brilliant Ideas Three Ways

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.”

Men Spirit Answers Divine Source Eternal Universal Seeking Immortal

Author:Annie Besant

“The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.”

Inspiration Religious Wonderful Human Nature Source Atheist Source Of Inspiration

Author:George Santayana

“Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.”

Source Argument Punishment Good And Bad Capital Punishment

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

Seems Spiritual Spirituality Chance Destiny Source Spring Accidents Our Destiny Synchronicity My Destiny Fate Destiny Fate And Destiny Life Destiny Life And Destiny Destiny And Choice Life Fate

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.”

Way Seems Past Quality Land Events Source Anxiety Shadow Stations Outstanding Reliable Sources

Author:Will Self

“Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.”

Way Feels Soul Sometimes Moving Song Acting Emotion Source Music Is Singing Incredibles Intense Your Soul Amanda Intense Emotions

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.”

Long Has Beens Pleasure Source Long Time Income Captains Kirk Captain Kirk

Author:William Shatner

“The only true source of politeness is consideration.”

Source Consideration Polite Politeness

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Needs Might Spiritual Science Wealth Interesting Attention Poverty Information Source Internet Obvious Rationality Overabundance

Author:Herbert Simon

“I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.”

People Trying Levels Source Recognition Amusing Poignant

Author:Grace Slick

“A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”

Home Happiness House Source Comfortable Conscience Source Of Happiness House And Home

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.”

Light Wanted School Jobs Film Pay Acting Source Mets Models Photographer Contribution Massive Modeling Illumination Gift Of Love

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.”

Giving Wealth Ability Liberty Military Source Authority Flow Treasure Thanks Enterprise Surprising Vitality Military Power National Treasure

Author:Tony Snow

“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”

People Ifs Important Differences Media Source News Propaganda Manufacturing Media Propaganda

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.”

Littles Happiness Joy Pleasure Objects Source Laughter Pursue Unexpected

Author:Herbert Spencer

“When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.”

Ifs Would Be Running America Energy Share Source Fairs Idiot Fair Share

Author:Lewis Black

“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.”

Stills Faces Choices Three Results Lord Source Tests Difficulty Dues Satan

Author:Charles Stanley

“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”

Firsts Love Is Power Source Source Of Happiness

Book:On Love

Source: On Love

“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”

Literature Source British Sensibility Inappropriate American Literature

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Health Source Exercise Improvement Chiefs Faculty Fitness Fitness Motivational

Book:Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue

Source: Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue

“In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.”

Real Hard Values Company Struggle Source Labor Controlled Assets

Author:James Surowiecki

“If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.”

“Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.”

Ifs Running Opportunity Energy Lost Difficult Source Becoming Resources Fuel Conventional Finite Fossils Fossil Fuel Renewable Energy Burning Fossil Fuels Extraction Renewable Resources

Author:David Suzuki

“Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.”

“When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.”

Soul Love Is Source Lovers Pure Essence Affection Supreme Conquer Beloved Manifestation

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Emotional Source Emotional Suffering

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”

Men Real Differences Source Judgment Judgment Of Others

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”

Inspirational Wisdom Knowledge Power Source Democratic Future Shock

Author:Alvin Toffler

“I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.”

Thinking Way Doe Source Software Stable Right Way Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.”

Ideas Whole Today Source Notion Incredibles Developing Compare Openness Improving Witchcraft Alchemy Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.”

People Way Changed Source Projects Approach Areas Bigger Practicals Visible Software Ideological Linux Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.”

Needs Wells Enough Economy Source Program Available Software

Author:Linus Torvalds

“It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.”

World Moving Energy Source Cost Dollars Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Energy Sources Burning Fossil Fuels Rework

Author:Ted Turner

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”

Humans Humor Happiness Joy Literature Heaven Secret Source Sorrow Pathetic Equator

Author:Mark Twain

“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”

Age Movement Source Universal Exploration Investigation

Book:Cinq Mars (Complete)

Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)

“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.”

Years States Today Past Lost United Millions United States Source Percent Aging Nine Income Primaries Farms Farmers Elsewhere Farming Ranchers Primary Source Family Farms Farmers And Ranchers

Author:Tom Vilsack

“As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”

Different Water Sea Source Various Tendencies Streams Crooked

Author:Swami Vivekananda