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• According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Motivation, Purpose, Devotion

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• Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Masters, Bases

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• Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

  Victor Turner

  Men, Artist, People

  Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Believe, Humility

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• I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, House, Temples

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• Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Determination, Integrity, Heart

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• The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

  Dana Gould

  Player, Guitar, Sound

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Oct 13, 2012

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• You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.

  Taylor Swift

  Dirty, Eye, Thinking

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

  Garth Brooks

  Country, Honesty, Real

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• Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Integrity, Holiday

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

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• Private sincerity is a public welfare.

  C. A. Bartol

  Welfare, Public Welfare

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• Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Issues, Inquiry, Few Words

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• Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

  Lord Chesterfield

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• The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Failing, Strokes

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• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Affection, Ghost, Sincere

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• Any sincere thought is irresistible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Sincere, Irresistible

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Haste, Insult

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.243, Penguin

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• I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Honesty, Character

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• We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, Three

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.

  Jenny Diski

  Men, Self, Ideas

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• I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, Ignorance, Clouds

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Expression, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.275, e-artnow

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• What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

  Moliere

  Names, Giving, Hypocrisy

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• I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

  Moliere

  Honesty, Heart, Men

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• If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Voice, Long

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