Portions Quotes - Page 32

• I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

  Louise Hay

  Helping Others, Giving, My Time

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 29, 2015

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• If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Long, Support, Earth

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.317

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• The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Animal, Men, Human Nature

  Henry Morton Stanley (1890). “In Darkest Africa”

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Unique

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition... Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

  John C. Calhoun

  Country, Community, Slavery

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• The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Son, Creative

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• I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Light, Voice

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• If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

  Peter Diamandis

  Uplifting, Impact, Problem

  "A decade to mass extinction event in S&P 500". Interview with Lori Ioannou, www.cnbc.com. June 5, 2014.

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• She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Believe, Doubt, Different

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• There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.

  Edgar Cayce

  Eye, Japan, Europe

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• Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Dream, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

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• Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 31, 2015

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• Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Medicine, Covering, Warning

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “A Guide to Health”, p.9, The Floating Press

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