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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

Charles Darwin

Mind, Progress, Skins

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I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.

Angeles Arrien

Real, Thinking, Rivers

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Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.

Victor C. Ferkiss

Struggle, Mean, Loss

Victor C. Ferkiss (1969). “Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality”

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Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

Joel Garreau

Effort, Evolution, Humans

Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.161, Broadway Books

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Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

Muhammad

Positive, God, Islamic

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Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

D. Wayne Calloway

Sports, Business, Sight

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Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

David Corbett

Character, Events, Stories

David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

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I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.

Derek Magyar

Flying, Lessons, Kind

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Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who would conquer
just one —
himself.
Better to conquer yourself
than others.
When you've trained yourself,
living in constant self-control,
neither a deva nor gandhabba,
nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
could turn that triumph
back into defeat.

Gautama Buddha

Men, Self, Battle

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To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

R. M. Ballantyne

Goodbye, Farewell, Hands

R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

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When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens

John F. Kennedy

Country, Men, Office

Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.539, Best Books on

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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Walter Savage Landor

Stupid, Practice, Religion

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So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

Alan Thicke

Real, Advice, Television

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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Benjamin Franklin

Life, Done, Stones

Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

Barack Obama

Opportunity, Justice, Pro Life

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

Robyn Davidson

Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

Rajneesh

Hangover, Mean, Past

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Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

Adolf Hitler

Memories, Ideas, Crowds

Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.197, eKitap Projesi

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Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

Giulio Douhet

Airplane, Sight, Enemy

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You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

Brian Tracy

Achievement, Inner Peace, Balance

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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

Edward Bernays

Order, Waiting, Demand

Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.47, Lulu.com

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In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Wall, Attitude

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My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

George Leigh Mallory

Believe, Mind, Rebellion

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Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Dick Gephardt

Jobs, Communication, Listening

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When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.

John Coltrane

Feelings, Style, Different

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