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• My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.

  Phil Zuckerman

  Ongoing, Research, Culture

  "Do Godless Kids Turn Out All Right?" by Steve Mazie, bigthink.com.

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• The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Feelings, Identity

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  Larry Kramer

  Writing, Views, Seductive

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• I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stars, Moon, Flames

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• Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

  Charles Garfield

  Commitment, Emotional, Self

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• The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

  Anthony Giddens

  Health, Risk, Psychological

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, World, Ends

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.

  Cal Thomas

  Heart, Successful, Self

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• God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.

  Annie Besant

  Karma, Space, Foundation

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Ancient Wisdom”, p.5, BookRix

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• Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

  Steve Albini

  Sound, Add, Fundamentals

  "Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

  Carre Otis

  Believe, Progress, Made

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

  Alexis Carrel

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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• In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  Paul Davies

  War, Home, Moon

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• From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God is in control of history. God's control may take the form of caring, governing, protecting, sustaining, and preserving. He exercises His will through divine superintendence or by divine intervention

  D. A. Fisher

  Education, Teaching, Exercise

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• For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

  John Cho

  Careers, Interesting, Difficult

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

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• I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, Focus

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model.

  Clayton Christensen

  Views, Internet, Categories

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

  George Gilder

  Racism, People, Erode

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.177, Regnery Publishing

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• To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Self, People, Empowering

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Under the sustaining influence of love, the physical body is always at its best. It is probably true that more people are sick from lack of love in their lives than from all other causes put together.

  Eric Butterworth

  People, Sick, Together

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• I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

  Willem Dafoe

  Theatre, Film, Preference

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• Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Heart, Moments

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• You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Pain, Mind

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