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• If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work in a manner that pleases You!' At the end, pray again to the Lord for forgiving any mistakes we may have committed during the task consciously or otherwise.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mistake, Blessing, Giving

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• Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Real, Book

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

  Aristotle

  Science, Thinking, Doe

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.277, Princeton University Press

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• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  Zakk Wylde

  Real, Guy, Musician

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

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Church, Rooms

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• [I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Church, Steps

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• Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

  Ella Maillart

  Writing, Emotion

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• Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.

  R. L. Stine

  Hate, Book, Kids

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

  Clarence Thomas

  Jobs, Law, Differences

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• People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

  Clarence Thomas

  Kids, People, Water

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

  Jenny Eclair

  Beach, Track, Bars

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

  Ellen Barkin

  Androgyny, Appeals

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Philosophy, Struggle, Future

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  Marie Osmond

  Safe, Way, Environment

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

  Michael Nesmith

  Differences, Dollars, Wealth

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

  Jon Lovitz

  People, Like You, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Husband, Men, Giving

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.369

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• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Gay, Proud

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• It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

  John Singer Sargent

  Overcoming, Talent

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• Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

  John Singer Sargent

  Eye, Names, Vision

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 123, 1927.

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• Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

  Alice James

  Quantity, Indestructible, Productive

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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