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“Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.”

Mind States Reality Moving Study Higher Offers State Of Mind Accurate Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.”

Book Real Shows America Wealth Study Influence Offers Achievement Evidence Democratic Careful Inequality Supposed To Be Association Antidote Scholarship Chorus Prodigious Real Knowledge

Author:Robert Kuttner

“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.”

Way Mind Body Study Sea Students Buddhism Keys Offers Sake Mind And Body Renounce

Author:Dogen

“The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself an inclination to it, is yet so over-whelm'd with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts, as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.”

Men Wells Philosophy Feelings Study Doubt Offers Accounts Philosophical Satisfaction Refuse Conviction Innocent Rejects Skepticism Inclination Careless Scruples Sceptic

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.”

Mind Firsts Made Ideas Might Form Study Offers Finished Spontaneity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.”

“We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!”

Has Beens Country School Quality Study Offers Unique Grateful Jazz University Texas Be Grateful

Author:Peter Erskine

“If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.”

Ifs Causes Study Offers Roots Disaster Over You Endeavor Gratification Root Cause Immediate Gratification

Book:Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)

Source: Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)