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• There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Appreciation, Reading, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Stress, Funeral, Cost

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I'm definitely influenced by lots of different things - from music, from reading, from I don't know... I have a lot of different sources of inspiration that I tap into when I need to get something done.

  Marko Djurdjevic

  Inspiration, Reading, Different

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Islamic, Understanding

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.

  Howard Shore

  Important, Directors, Connections

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, America, Church

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

  James Madison

  Strong, Fall, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, World, Spirit

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.168, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Lonely, Tired, Effort

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• Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

  David Shields

  Teaching, Editing, Miracle

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Ears, Pleasure, Terrible

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• Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Culture, Moral, Evolution

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, People, Training

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.291, Vintage

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• Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Irritation, Mind, Levi Strauss

  "Chronicles of Earthsea". The Guardian Online Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2004.

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• Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Self, Law, Ideas

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• Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

  Walt Kelly

  Cutting, Air, Want

  "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.

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• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search.  Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned.  And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Confused, Reality

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

  Huston Smith

  People, World, Window

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• Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

  Maimonides

  Men, Honor, Add

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• In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

  Ben Bradlee

  Men, Perfect, World

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Hyman Rickover

  Country, Memories, Military

  US Naval Postgraduate School Address, March 16, 1954.

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• Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

  Hyman Rickover

  Organization, Details, States

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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