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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  War, Sleep, People

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• If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Thinking

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.251, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Evil, Vision, Matter

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• In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.

  Polybius

  Children, War, Men

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Debt

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Life, Light

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• Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Doe, Desert, Mirages

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• Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Positive, Men, Law Of Attraction

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.21, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Law, Feelings, Fusion

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• Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

  William James

  Truth, Views, Lasts

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Freedom, Confused

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Men, Law

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• The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Magic, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Women, Thinking, Elements

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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• It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Heroic Deeds, Religion

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

  Laurence Sterne

  Travel, Littles, Language

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• I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

  William Hogarth

  Art, Thinking, Good Sense

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• The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Mother, Children, Mirrors

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• For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle (982b10), later published in "The Basic Works of Aristotle" edited by Richard McKeon (p. 692), 1941.

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• Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

  Norm MacDonald

  Shame, Fortitude, Virtue

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• there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

  Ernestine Rose

  Luxury, World, Cooperation

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Artist, Air

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• Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.

  Sextus Empiricus

  Attitude, Suspense, Way

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1933). “Sextus Empiricus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Numbers, People

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.16, VM eBooks

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