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• The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Light, Soul, Understanding

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• I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

  Joseph Story

  Jealous, Law, Long

  Joseph Story (1835). “The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected”, p.456

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• For every man, peace of soul is precious. With those who have attained peace of soul, the body can be in constant motion; in work, in pain, but their souls, affixed to God, always remain in unwavering peace.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Pain, Men, Soul

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• Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

  Lovell Rousseau

  Military, War, Able

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• This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

  David Platt

  Inward, Transformation, Follow Me

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.58, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Thinking, Keys

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• Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

  Plato

  Democracy, Idlers, Bees

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• Constant dropping wears away stones

  Benjamin Franklin

  Achievement, Stones, Dropping

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

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• Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• [Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, 'Oh, that's a new thing, that's a new gift that I got today that I didn't even know about yesterday,' it keeps me going. It keeps me more than going. It keeps me enthusiastic and grateful!

  Michael J. Fox

  Grateful, Yesterday, Today

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• Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

  Beth Moore

  Insecure, Men, Self

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• Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Letting Go, Prayer

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• I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Battle, Problem

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• Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Nightmare, Beijing

  "Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City". www.newsweek.com. August 28, 2011.

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• Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

  Jaron Lanier

  Doors, Empty Rooms, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.180, Vintage

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• The energy of the universe is constant.

  Rudolf Clausius

  Energy, Entropy, Universe

  "Ueber Verschiedene fur die Anwendung Bequeme Formen der Hauptgleichungen der Mechanischen Warmetheorie" (1865).

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• I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.

  Edward Rutledge

  Real, Reflection, Evil

  "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 233, 1997.

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• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

  David Whyte

  Ocean, Breathing, Feet

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• Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Discovery, Events

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.

  Vera Nazarian

  Running, Children, Men

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• Mobile isn’t just a media channel, it’s her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.

  Tina Sharkey

  Mom, Media, Easier

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• The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  True Friend, Black, Dresses

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• The only thing that is constant is change.

  Heraclitus

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• The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Sadness, Insecure, Effort

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