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• In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Learning

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• I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

  Peter Mayle

  Shopping, People, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 26, 2011

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• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Giving, Community

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

  Isla Fisher

  Growing Up, Nice, Grateful

  "Interview: Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher Talk About Their Roles in Rise of the Guardians". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Literature, Lines, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising to the level of an explicit emphasis, and never the chief concern in and of itself, the world of nature is an integral component of God's new creation work.

  Douglas J. Moo

  Mean, Rising, World

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• There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

  Alex Scally

  Six Months, Stuff, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

  Sangharakshita

  Real, People, Littles

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• What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.

  Wayne Dyer

  Warrior, People, Goal

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

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• I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, Standards, Cruelty

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  White, Racism, Black

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1996). “Report from part two”, Third World Pr

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• History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

  Julian Jaynes

  Moving, Learning, Knowledge

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.

  Nelson Shanks

  Thinking, Order, Musical

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• The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

  Chad Urmston

  Taken, Needs, Wages

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• Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

  Manly Hall

  Philosophy, Priorities, Substance

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.

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• History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.

  Neal Ascherson

  Glasses, Hands, Years

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• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Lines, Rhyming

  "Harp's Delight - An interview with Joanna Newsom". Interview with Michael Cramer, www.dustedmagazine.com.

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• Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

  Bill Vaughan

  Letting Go, Spring, Adversity

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• My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

  David Schwimmer

  Parent, Age, Pressure

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• our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.

  Sally Helgesen

  Choices, Effort, Trends

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• Jung said there are four archetypes adults go through, and these archetypes are reflected in the development of my work. The first archetype is the archetype of the athlete, reflecting the time in our adult life when our primary emphasis is on our body - what it looks like, how beautiful it is, how strong it is, and so on. We identify ourselves with our body. We are our body. Growing adults next move to what Jung called the archetype of the warrior. We take our physical bodies out there to do what warriors do.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Strong, Moving

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

  Justo L. Gonzalez

  Latin, Greek, Church

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Teacher, College, Needs

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• I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.

  John McCain

  Want, Hamilton, Fixed

  "Senate bill would implement 9/11 panel proposals" by Ted Barrett, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2004.

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