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• Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

  Amos Elon

  Past, Understanding, Hindsight

  Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”

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• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Fighting, Animal

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, Israel, People

  "Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. [.....] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. "You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th." Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. [.....] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.

  Kent Hovind

  Order, Aquarius, Waiting

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• The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Practice, Definitions, Tests

  "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

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• On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.

  David Lange

  Climbing, Years, Two

  "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 94), 2000.

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• Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Numbers, World

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• You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James E. Faust taught, “Priesthood is the authority delegated to man to minister in the name of God. “The Aaronic Priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels.
  As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you. You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

  David L. Beck

  Children, Father, Angel

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• The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Uplifting, Self, Years

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.347, University of Illinois Press

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.

  J. J. C. Smart

  Philosophy, Believe, Views

  J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.

  Gordon Stein

  Atheist, Believe, Numbers

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• You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

  Doug Graham

  Book, Soul, Ignorant

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• Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

  Plato

  Integrity, Destiny, Light

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• There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

  David Livingstone

  Blessing, People, Devil

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• Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.

  Max Lucado

  Fashion, Jesus, Doe

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• I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

  Carl Rogers

  Mistake, Educational, Thinking

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• [Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.

  James Wolcott

  Bird, Fields, Approach

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• Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Mindfulness, Inward, Stopping

  "Schools Use Mindfulness to Reform Student Behavior" by Linda Novick O’Keefe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2017.

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• Who guides below, and rules above,
  The great disposer, and the mighty king;
  Than He none greater, next Him none,
  That can be, is, or was.

  Horace

  God, Kings, Next

  Horace (1684). “The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace: Done Into English”, p.18

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• It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Meditation, Fruit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

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• God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Land, Dear Ones

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Men, Two

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