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• Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

  Meister Eckhart

  Pure

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspirational, Adversity, Greatness

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• Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Truth, Freedom

  "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

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• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

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• It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

  Daniel Handler

  Sweet, Mean, World

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• We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

  Janet Napolitano

  Responsibility, Rights, People

  "Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Simple, Rivers

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• Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Painful Experiences, Tragedy

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• Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Progress

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• Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Running, Air, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• ... it doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Holiness, Response

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• Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

  Nicolas Caussin

  Ambition, Fire, Wind

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• A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

  Tony Abbott

  Facts, Humans, Subjects

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• It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Mind, Ordinary

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Optimistic, Rose, Vision

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  People, Vices, Doe

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

  Richard Stallman

  Open Source

  "Re: GPL version 4" on NetBSD mailing list, mail-index.netbsd.org. July 17, 2008.

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• I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Skills, Different

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hard Times, Thinking, Wikipedia

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• Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Believe, Dark, Destiny

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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• The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

  Harriet Hanson Robinson

  Business, Organization, Soul And Body

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