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• Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Mean

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• Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

  Dave Barry

  Nagging, Sound, Drizzle

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.97, Ballantine Books

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• Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

  Max Planck

  Fighting, Rallying Cry, Battle

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• I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Fighting, Always Trying, Kind

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

  Imre Lakatos

  Numbers, Criticism, Doe

  Imre Lakatos (1976). “Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Men, Envy

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• Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Crazy, War, Party

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• I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Memories, Years, Faithful

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.403

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

  Louis Pasteur

  Progress, Matter, Eternity

  Partially quoted in "Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science" by René Dubos, Da Capo Press, Inc., (p. 396), 1950.

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• There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.

  Caroline Wells Healey Dall

  Education, Brother, Sex

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• Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Rejection, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Sky, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir John Gilbert (1858). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow ... A Complete Edition, Including the Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert, Etc”, p.73

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• If by prayer
  Incessant I could hope to change the will
  Of him who all things can, I would not cease
  To weary him with my assiduous cries;
  But prayer against his absolute decree
  No more avails than breath against the wind
  Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
  Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Wind, Bidding

  John Milton (1844). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments”, p.247

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• The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Integrity, Struggle, Independent

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• Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

  Matthew Healy

  Crazy, Insane, World

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• Freedom is like a man who kills himself
  Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
  Grows sharp in blood.

  Wallace Stevens

  Suicide, Freedom, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.292, Vintage

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• The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart.

  Florence King

  Heart, Emotional, America

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• And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Penguin

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• The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Records, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.266, Harvard University Press

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• Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

  Virginia Woolf

  Solitary, Confinement, Company

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Men, World

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, War, America

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.

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