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• When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Demand, Want

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• For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

  Sengcan

  Self, Doubt, Mind

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• My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Would Be, Opinion

  Vincent van Gogh (1988). “Van Gogh: A Retrospective”, Park Lane Enterprises

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• Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles.
  
  These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Europe, Ideas

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.23, Random House

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• If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Two

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Thinking, Expression

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• Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Thinking, Light, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Truth, Freedom, Lying

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• That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female. A real celibate is one who has gone beyond, who is neither.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Real, Males

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Character, Drawing, People

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “THOUGHT VIBRATION - The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for Practical Mental Influence, The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, Nuggets of the New Thought, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma”, p.6, e-artnow

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• There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Dominion, Rooms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Time, Moving, Political

  "The Convenient Reverse of Logic in Our Time". Commencement address at the American University. Printed in "A View from the Stands", book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1986.

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• When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

  Zhuangzi

  Deeds And Words, World, Transformation

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• What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

  Napoleon Hill

  Groups, Prejudice, Individual

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• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Spring, Giving

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• Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

  Joan Dunayer

  Attitude, Practice, Consideration

  Joan Dunayer (2004). “Speciesism”, Ryce Pub

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• A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Depth, Consciousness, Myth

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• Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

  Carl Jung

  Structure, Happens, Subjective

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Struggle

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• The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mean, Rising Up, Mind

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Giving, Goal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• Israel's democracy is the bedrock on which our relationship stands. It's a shining example for people around the world who are on the frontline of the struggle for democracy in their own lands. Our relationship is also based on our common interest in a more stable and peaceful Middle East, a Middle East that will finally accord Israel the recognition and acceptance that its people have yearned for so long and have been too long denied, a Middle East that will know greater democracy for all its peoples.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Acceptance, Israel

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• I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

  Edward Said

  Global Issues

  Edward W. Said, Amritjit Singh, Bruce G. Johnson (2004). “Interviews with Edward W. Said”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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