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“I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.”

“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.”

Way Spiritual Teacher Meditation Cry Particular Source Sitting Very Good Goddess Good Way Visualization Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.”

Ifs Stills Father Powerful Records Havens Information Particular Brother Theory Source Evolution Dad Claims Independent Structure Errors Locals Observation Bankruptcy Unified Inference

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.”

Men Humans Ideas Self Values Spirituality Greater Divine Particular Source Eternal Universal Unity Seeking Human Life Branches Broads Equations Sects Approximation Value Of Human Life

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.”

Men Way Firsts Matter Use Eye Seeing Heard Particular Source Regard Distinction Right Way Distinguished Judicial Subordinates Hearsay

Book:Natural Right and History

Source: Natural Right and History

“I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.”

Art Creativity Share Creation Particular Source Achievement Art Is Flow Instruments Strikes Attacking Great Gifts Wellspring

Author:Morgan Llywelyn

“When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.”

May Art Light Causes Objects Ignorance Particular Source Members Unique Independent Notion Sanity Isolated Detached Enchantment Inexplicable

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.”

Men Self Study Wife Particular He Man Source Needed Please Husband Men And Women Distance Delight Rage Hated Fuel Frustration Observing Dissatisfaction Measuring Furnaces Vindicated

Author:Alexander Theroux

“There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.”

Sometimes Stories Seems Waiting Particular Source Fog Mist

Author:Jay Neugeboren

“Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.”

World Self Style Particular Source Balance Discipline Flow Breaths Simplicity Flight Reasonable Composer Sensibility Self Discipline Spontaneity Provinces Refinement Sophistication

Author:Aaron Copland

“Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?”

Ifs Problem Sound Pieces Particular Source Track Communion Bass

Author:Steven Wilson

“With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.”

Reason Purpose Decision Information Particular Source Decades Ingredients Toms Fingertips Maine

Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano

“So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.”

Thinking Should Kind Problem Artist Fighting Term Deals Doubt Particular Source Artistic Neurosis Dickens Eliot Incompleteness

Author:Philip Kitcher