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• The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the uniform law of life--that death does not touch it. The witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were unprejudiced, unexpectant, incredulous, and their honesty is not doubted even by skeptical criticism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Honesty, Believe

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• Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Fables, Faces, Ancient

  "Nicholas Wade’s Ridiculous Prescription for Curing Creationism". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Machines, Body, Return

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• Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Moon, Reality

  Alan Watts (2003). “Become what You are”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

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• Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Self, Reverence, Awe

  "Uncommon Knowledge - Dr. Ursula Goodenough" by Jeannette Batz Cooperman, www.stlmag.com. July 2005.

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• Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

  Jay Griffiths

  Media, Ideas, Climate

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Silence, Here And There

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

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• To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation.  If someone throws a rock, you duck.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Rocks, Ducks, Situation

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• Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Heart, Thinking, Views

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Done, Natural, States

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (1), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

  J. A. Jance

  Important, Needs, Stories

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• So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Giving, Attention

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.68, New World Library

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• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Morning, Animal

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.412, e-artnow

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• From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would.

  George Saunders

  Years, Bird, Tree

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.57, Random House

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• With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Discipline

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• The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Chinese

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• For anybody whose family, you know, probably came from somewhere else a few generations to say, OK, but now we're going to put up the drawbridge and not let anybody else in, I don't think that's in accord with the values of America.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.

  Roger Deakin

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Roger Deakin (2008). “Notes from Walnut Tree Farm”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.

  Richard Adams

  Dog, Cat, Jealous

  Richard Adams (2015). “The Plague Dogs”, p.160, Oneworld Publications

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• If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Jobs, Work

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• Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.

  Sengcan

  Pain, Real, Oneness

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• It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Important, Should, Transformed

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• The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

  Seneca the Younger

  Deeds And Words, Proof, Should

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• Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Judging, Honor

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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